DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wilkes 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 | 10,687 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,461 | 100.0 | Native | 10,550 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 196 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 10,530 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 130 | 5.3 | State of residence | 8,929 | 83.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,166 | 47.4 | Different state | 1,601 | 15.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 680 | 27.6 | Born outside United States | 20 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 289 | 11.7 | Foreign born | 137 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 66 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 43 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,265 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 94 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 921 | 12.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,624 | 22.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,609 | 35.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 137 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,034 | 14.2 | Europe | 35 | 25.5 | |
| Associate degree | 206 | 2.8 | Asia | 5 | 3.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 565 | 7.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 306 | 4.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 84 | 61.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.0 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 9.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,066 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,593 | 100.0 | English only | 9,801 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 2,114 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 265 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,431 | 51.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 109 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 292 | 3.4 | Spanish | 202 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 901 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 91 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 735 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 45 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 855 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 499 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,687 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 275 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,825 | 82.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 104 | 37.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,117 | 100.0 | Dutch | 52 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,069 | 13.2 | English | 833 | 7.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 76 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 253 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,388 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 206 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,747 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 531 | 5.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,456 | 25.3 | Italian | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 50.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,291 | 74.7 | Norwegian | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.0 | (X) | Polish | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,813 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 993 | 54.8 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 218 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 110 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,066 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 229 | 2.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,742 | 67.0 | Swedish | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,242 | 32.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,980 | 19.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,262 | 12.5 | United States or American | 1,884 | 17.6 | |
| Same state | 816 | 8.1 | Welsh | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 446 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 82 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 4,489 | 42.0 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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