Burnsville, NC

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:3709140, place: Burnsville town, North Carolina)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 252 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 18 (7.14%)
Kindergarten: 29 (11.51%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 128 (50.79%)
High school (grades 9-12): 47 (18.65%)
College or graduate school: 30 (11.9%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,244 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 229 (18.41%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 181 (14.55%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 331 (26.61%)
Some college, no degree: 219 (17.6%)
Associate degree: 67 (5.39%)
Bachelor's degree: 125 (10.05%)
Graduate or professional degree: 92 (7.4%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 67%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 17.4%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,368 (100%)
Never married: 285 (20.83%)
Now married, except separated: 650 (47.51%)
Separated: 28 (2.05%)
Total Widowed: 237 (17.32%)
Widowed Female: 223 (16.3%)
Total Divorced: 168 (12.28%)
Divorced Female: 103 (7.53%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 12 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 3 (25%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,331 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 196 (14.73%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 230 (100%)
--With a disability: 19 (8.26%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 751 (100%)
--With a disability: 207 (27.56%)
----Percent employed: 46.4%
--No disability: 544 (72.44%)
----Percent employed: 77.6%
Population 65 years and over: 423 (100%)
--With a disability: 238 (56.26%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,523 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 882 (57.91%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 596 (39.13%)
--Same county: 302 (19.83%)
--Different county: 294 (19.3%)
----Same state: 130 (8.54%)
----Different state: 164 (10.77%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 45 (2.95%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,605 (100%)
Native: 1,540 (95.95%)
--Born in United States: 1,534 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,153 (71.84%)
----Different state: 381 (23.74%)
--Born outside United States: 6 (0.37%)
Foreign born: 65 (4.05%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 53 (3.3%)
--Naturalized citizen: 10 (0.62%)
--Not a citizen: 55 (3.43%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 65 (100%)
Europe: 8 (12.31%)
Asia: 14 (21.54%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 43 (66.15%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,523 (100%)
English only: 1,447 (95.01%)
Language other than English: 76 (4.99%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 42 (2.76%)
--Spanish: 50 (3.28%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 33 (2.17%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 19 (1.25%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2 (0.13%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 7 (0.46%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 7 (0.46%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,605 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,027% (63.99%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 2 (0.12%)
Dutch: 12 (0.75%)
English: 171 (10.65%)
French (except Basque): 4 (0.25%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 113 (7.04%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 7 (0.44%)
Irish: 136 (8.47%)
Italian: 19 (1.18%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 9 (0.56%)
Polish: 15 (0.93%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 6 (0.37%)
Scotch-Irish: 82 (5.11%)
Scottish: 38 (2.37%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 0 (0%)
Swiss: 5 (0.31%)
Ukrainian: 2 (0.12%)
United States or American: 232 (14.45%)
Welsh: 3 (0.19%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 171 (10.65%)

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