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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Moore County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 5,740 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,312 100.0   Native 5,685 99.0
Nursery school, preschool 52 4.0       Born in United States 5,657 98.6
Kindergarten 63 4.8           State of residence 4,393 76.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 664 50.6           Different state 1,264 22.0
High school (grades 9-12) 288 22.0       Born outside United States 28 0.5
College or graduate school 245 18.7   Foreign born 55 1.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 47 0.8
  Population 25 years and over 3,939 100.0       Not a citizen 8 0.1
Less than 9th grade 345 8.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 577 14.6   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,574 40.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 55 100.0
Some college, no degree 758 19.2   Europe 25 45.5
Associate degree 220 5.6   Asia 9 16.4
Bachelor's degree 301 7.6   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 164 4.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.6 (X)   Northern America 21 38.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 5,434 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 4,641 100.0   English only 5,388 99.2
Never married 714 15.4   Language other than English 46 0.8
Now married, except separated 3,069 66.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 9 0.2
Separated 64 1.4   Spanish 9 0.2
Widowed 408 8.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 5 0.1
 Female 323 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 25 0.5
Divorced 386 8.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 152 3.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 12 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 4 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 5,740 100.0
           under 18 years 172 100.0     Total ancestries reported 3,694 64.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 67 39.0   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 0 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,380 100.0   Dutch 42 0.7
Civilian veterans 609 13.9   English 346 6.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 81 1.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 11 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 369 6.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,203 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 136 11.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,328 100.0   Irish¹ 468 8.2
With a disability 723 21.7   Italian 65 1.1
 Percent employed 57.7 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 2,605 78.3   Norwegian 41 0.7
 Percent employed 77.5 (X)   Polish 26 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 786 100.0   Portuguese 7 0.1
With a disability 441 56.1   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 59 1.0
        Scottish 110 1.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 5,434 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,631 66.8   Swedish 7 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,789 32.9   Swiss 5 0.1
 Same county 617 11.4   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,172 21.6   United States or American 1,259 21.9
  Same state 908 16.7   Welsh 15 0.3
  Different state 264 4.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 14 0.3   Other ancestries 783 13.6
 
Date: July 7, 2006
 
-Represent zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable.
¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.
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