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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Yadkin 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 36,348 100.0
      enrolled in school 7,982 100.0   Native 34,759 95.6
Nursery school, preschool 473 5.9       Born in United States 34,672 95.4
Kindergarten 608 7.6           State of residence 29,149 80.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 3,991 50.0           Different state 5,523 15.2
High school (grades 9-12) 1,761 22.1       Born outside United States 87 0.2
College or graduate school 1,149 14.4   Foreign born 1,589 4.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,084 3.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 213 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 24,916 100.0       Not a citizen 1,376 3.8
Less than 9th grade 2,914 11.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,056 16.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 9,187 36.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,589 100.0
Some college, no degree 4,490 18.0   Europe 47 3.0
Associate degree 1,707 6.9   Asia 40 2.5
Bachelor's degree 1,831 7.3   Africa 4 0.3
Graduate or professional degree 731 2.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 1,493 94.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 72.0 (X)   Northern America 5 0.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 33,964 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 28,910 100.0   English only 31,494 92.7
Never married 4,782 16.5   Language other than English 2,470 7.3
Now married, except separated 18,656 64.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,425 4.2
Separated 915 3.2   Spanish 2,346 6.9
Widowed 2,122 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,395 4.1
 Female 1,776 6.1   Other Indo-European languages 78 0.2
Divorced 2,435 8.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 18 0.1
 Female 1,375 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 42 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 8 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 36,348 100.0
           under 18 years 333 100.0     Total ancestries reported 26,092 71.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 212 63.7   Arab 24 0.1
        Czech¹ 27 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 21 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 27,655 100.0   Dutch 568 1.6
Civilian veterans 3,144 11.4   English 3,141 8.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 426 1.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 84 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,268 9.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 7,470 100.0   Greek 82 0.2
With a disability 537 7.2   Hungarian 6 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 21,260 100.0   Irish¹ 2,117 5.8
With a disability 4,695 22.1   Italian 355 1.0
 Percent employed 58.8 (X)   Lithuanian 6 0.0
No disability 16,565 77.9   Norwegian 33 0.1
 Percent employed 80.4 (X)   Polish 175 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 4,933 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 2,424 49.1   Russian 2 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 856 2.4
        Scottish 424 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 33,964 100.0   Subsaharan African 21 0.1
Same house in 1995 21,906 64.5   Swedish 65 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 11,463 33.8   Swiss 53 0.1
 Same county 5,960 17.5   Ukrainian 2 0.0
 Different county 5,503 16.2   United States or American 8,689 23.9
  Same state 3,872 11.4   Welsh 95 0.3
  Different state 1,631 4.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 22 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 595 1.8   Other ancestries 5,524 15.2
 
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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