DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Alleghany 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 | 12,926 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,731 | 100.0 | Native | 12,814 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 151 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 12,764 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 274 | 10.0 | State of residence | 10,074 | 77.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,306 | 47.8 | Different state | 2,690 | 20.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 618 | 22.6 | Born outside United States | 50 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 382 | 14.0 | Foreign born | 112 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 40 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 62 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,168 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 50 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 882 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,178 | 12.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,596 | 39.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 112 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,694 | 18.5 | Europe | 35 | 31.3 | |
| Associate degree | 574 | 6.3 | Asia | 67 | 59.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 876 | 9.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 368 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.5 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 8.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,202 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,502 | 100.0 | English only | 11,941 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 1,625 | 15.5 | Language other than English | 261 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,966 | 66.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 73 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 128 | 1.2 | Spanish | 115 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 909 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 55 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 711 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 111 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 874 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 436 | 4.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,926 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 218 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,574 | 74.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 169 | 77.5 | Arab | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 18 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,973 | 100.0 | Dutch | 140 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,635 | 16.4 | English | 1,131 | 8.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 149 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,284 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,530 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 237 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,555 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,173 | 9.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,513 | 20.0 | Italian | 128 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 38.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,042 | 80.0 | Norwegian | 52 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 62 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,970 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 823 | 41.8 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 349 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 134 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,202 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,703 | 71.3 | Swedish | 43 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,477 | 28.5 | Swiss | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,649 | 13.5 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,828 | 15.0 | United States or American | 3,434 | 26.6 | |
| Same state | 1,406 | 11.5 | Welsh | 44 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 422 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,322 | 10.2 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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