Cajah's Mountain, NC

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:3709530, place: Cajah's Mountain town, North Carolina)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 516 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 10 (1.94%)
Kindergarten: 21 (4.07%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 282 (54.65%)
High school (grades 9-12): 112 (21.71%)
College or graduate school: 91 (17.64%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 2,019 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 289 (14.31%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 413 (20.46%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 677 (33.53%)
Some college, no degree: 283 (14.02%)
Associate degree: 134 (6.64%)
Bachelor's degree: 145 (7.18%)
Graduate or professional degree: 78 (3.86%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 65.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 11%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 2,232 (100%)
Never married: 295 (13.22%)
Now married, except separated: 1,485 (66.53%)
Separated: 64 (2.87%)
Total Widowed: 147 (6.59%)
Widowed Female: 122 (5.47%)
Total Divorced: 241 (10.8%)
Divorced Female: 120 (5.38%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 69 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 46 (66.67%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 2,165 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 389 (17.97%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 476 (100%)
--With a disability: 15 (3.15%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,500 (100%)
--With a disability: 363 (24.2%)
----Percent employed: 62.8%
--No disability: 1,137 (75.8%)
----Percent employed: 85.3%
Population 65 years and over: 289 (100%)
--With a disability: 152 (52.6%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,554 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,500 (58.73%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,035 (40.52%)
--Same county: 700 (27.41%)
--Different county: 335 (13.12%)
----Same state: 254 (9.95%)
----Different state: 81 (3.17%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 19 (0.74%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 2,680 (100%)
Native: 2,643 (98.62%)
--Born in United States: 2,634 (100%)
----State of residence: 2,249 (83.92%)
----Different state: 385 (14.37%)
--Born outside United States: 9 (0.34%)
Foreign born: 37 (1.38%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 20 (0.75%)
--Naturalized citizen: 12 (0.45%)
--Not a citizen: 25 (0.93%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 37 (100%)
Europe: 12 (32.43%)
Asia: 25 (67.57%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 0 (0%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,554 (100%)
English only: 2,504 (98.04%)
Language other than English: 50 (1.96%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 21 (0.82%)
--Spanish: 22 (0.86%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 3 (0.12%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 25 (0.98%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 21 (0.82%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 2,680 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,021% (75.41%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 61 (2.28%)
English: 234 (8.73%)
French (except Basque): 68 (2.54%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 348 (12.99%)
Greek: 3 (0.11%)
Hungarian: 6 (0.22%)
Irish: 150 (5.6%)
Italian: 50 (1.87%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 10 (0.37%)
Polish: 8 (0.3%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 3 (0.11%)
Scotch-Irish: 67 (2.5%)
Scottish: 89 (3.32%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 23 (0.86%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 597 (22.28%)
Welsh: 0 (0%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 304 (11.34%)

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