Pleasant Garden, NC

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:3752760, place: Pleasant Garden town, North Carolina)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 1,202 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 102 (8.49%)
Kindergarten: 51 (4.24%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 629 (52.33%)
High school (grades 9-12): 268 (22.3%)
College or graduate school: 152 (12.65%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 3,287 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 95 (2.89%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 429 (13.05%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 1,014 (30.85%)
Some college, no degree: 786 (23.91%)
Associate degree: 269 (8.18%)
Bachelor's degree: 505 (15.36%)
Graduate or professional degree: 189 (5.75%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 84.1%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 21.1%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 3,783 (100%)
Never married: 599 (15.83%)
Now married, except separated: 2,527 (66.8%)
Separated: 108 (2.85%)
Total Widowed: 208 (5.5%)
Widowed Female: 185 (4.89%)
Total Divorced: 341 (9.01%)
Divorced Female: 166 (4.39%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 114 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 53 (46.49%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 3,578 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 587 (16.41%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 1,077 (100%)
--With a disability: 125 (11.61%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 2,874 (100%)
--With a disability: 458 (15.94%)
----Percent employed: 69.4%
--No disability: 2,416 (84.06%)
----Percent employed: 77.7%
Population 65 years and over: 533 (100%)
--With a disability: 277 (51.97%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 4,520 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 2,720 (60.18%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,770 (39.16%)
--Same county: 1,194 (26.42%)
--Different county: 576 (12.74%)
----Same state: 254 (5.62%)
----Different state: 322 (7.12%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 30 (0.66%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 4,857 (100%)
Native: 4,793 (98.68%)
--Born in United States: 4,736 (100%)
----State of residence: 3,478 (71.61%)
----Different state: 1,258 (25.9%)
--Born outside United States: 57 (1.17%)
Foreign born: 64 (1.32%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 24 (0.49%)
--Naturalized citizen: 20 (0.41%)
--Not a citizen: 44 (0.91%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 64 (100%)
Europe: 21 (32.81%)
Asia: 16 (25%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 13 (20.31%)
Northern America: 14 (21.88%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 4,520 (100%)
English only: 4,434 (98.1%)
Language other than English: 86 (1.9%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 35 (0.77%)
--Spanish: 47 (1.04%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 11 (0.24%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 31 (0.69%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 16 (0.35%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 8 (0.18%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 8 (0.18%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 4,857 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 4,191% (86.29%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 23 (0.47%)
English: 621 (12.79%)
French (except Basque): 90 (1.85%)
French Canadian: 25 (0.51%)
German: 468 (9.64%)
Greek: 12 (0.25%)
Hungarian: 8 (0.16%)
Irish: 366 (7.54%)
Italian: 47 (0.97%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 9 (0.19%)
Polish: 78 (1.61%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 276 (5.68%)
Scottish: 94 (1.94%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 7 (0.14%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 25 (0.51%)
United States or American: 828 (17.05%)
Welsh: 22 (0.45%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 1,192 (24.54%)

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