Elizabethtown, NC

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:3720600, place: Elizabethtown town, North Carolina)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 769 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 44 (5.72%)
Kindergarten: 49 (6.37%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 342 (44.47%)
High school (grades 9-12): 146 (18.99%)
College or graduate school: 188 (24.45%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 2,455 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 257 (10.47%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 418 (17.03%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 631 (25.7%)
Some college, no degree: 567 (23.1%)
Associate degree: 113 (4.6%)
Bachelor's degree: 365 (14.87%)
Graduate or professional degree: 104 (4.24%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 72.5%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 19.1%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 2,791 (100%)
Never married: 780 (27.95%)
Now married, except separated: 1,111 (39.81%)
Separated: 103 (3.69%)
Total Widowed: 524 (18.77%)
Widowed Female: 408 (14.62%)
Total Divorced: 273 (9.78%)
Divorced Female: 176 (6.31%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 74 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 67 (90.54%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 2,652 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 262 (9.88%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 641 (100%)
--With a disability: 79 (12.32%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,719 (100%)
--With a disability: 387 (22.51%)
----Percent employed: 50.6%
--No disability: 1,332 (77.49%)
----Percent employed: 68.2%
Population 65 years and over: 571 (100%)
--With a disability: 321 (56.22%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 3,221 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 2,184 (67.81%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 986 (30.61%)
--Same county: 564 (17.51%)
--Different county: 422 (13.1%)
----Same state: 283 (8.79%)
----Different state: 139 (4.32%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 51 (1.58%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 3,375 (100%)
Native: 3,334 (98.79%)
--Born in United States: 3,334 (100%)
----State of residence: 2,845 (84.3%)
----Different state: 489 (14.49%)
--Born outside United States: 0 (0%)
Foreign born: 41 (1.21%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 22 (0.65%)
--Naturalized citizen: 19 (0.56%)
--Not a citizen: 22 (0.65%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 41 (100%)
Europe: 19 (46.34%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 22 (53.66%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 3,221 (100%)
English only: 3,111 (96.58%)
Language other than English: 110 (3.42%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 48 (1.49%)
--Spanish: 73 (2.27%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 31 (0.96%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 20 (0.62%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 3,375 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,400% (71.11%)
Arab: 19 (0.56%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 9 (0.27%)
Dutch: 25 (0.74%)
English: 173 (5.13%)
French (except Basque): 9 (0.27%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 54 (1.6%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 142 (4.21%)
Italian: 0 (0%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 82 (2.43%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 242 (7.17%)
Scottish: 55 (1.63%)
Slovak: 12 (0.36%)
Subsaharan African: 47 (1.39%)
Swedish: 28 (0.83%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 221 (6.55%)
Welsh: 46 (1.36%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 1,236 (36.62%)

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