DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Galax city
[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 | 6,837 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,446 | 100.0 | Native | 6,249 | 91.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 80 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 6,240 | 91.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 7.2 | State of residence | 4,718 | 69.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 714 | 49.4 | Different state | 1,522 | 22.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 353 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 195 | 13.5 | Foreign born | 588 | 8.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 353 | 5.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 34 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,782 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 554 | 8.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,007 | 21.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 886 | 18.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,370 | 28.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 588 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 733 | 15.3 | Europe | 34 | 5.8 | |
| Associate degree | 256 | 5.4 | Asia | 6 | 1.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 358 | 7.5 | Africa | 11 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 172 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 537 | 91.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,463 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,527 | 100.0 | English only | 5,749 | 89.0 | |
| Never married | 996 | 18.0 | Language other than English | 714 | 11.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,066 | 55.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 511 | 7.9 | |
| Separated | 170 | 3.1 | Spanish | 673 | 10.4 | |
| Widowed | 629 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 494 | 7.6 | |
| Female | 524 | 9.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 35 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 666 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 388 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,837 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 100 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,649 | 68.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 75 | 75.0 | Arab | 11 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,254 | 100.0 | Dutch | 107 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 595 | 11.3 | English | 716 | 10.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 385 | 5.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,435 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 143 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,755 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 310 | 4.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,123 | 29.9 | Italian | 76 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 56.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,632 | 70.1 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 78.0 | (X) | Polish | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,135 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 523 | 46.1 | Russian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 120 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 134 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 20 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,463 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,455 | 53.5 | Swedish | 80 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,858 | 44.2 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 862 | 13.3 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,996 | 30.9 | United States or American | 1,374 | 20.1 | |
| Same state | 1,566 | 24.2 | Welsh | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 430 | 6.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 150 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 1,255 | 18.4 | |
| 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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