General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4530355, place: Gray Court town, South Carolina)SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school: 280 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 31 (11.07%)
Kindergarten: 12 (4.29%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 157 (56.07%)
High school (grades 9-12): 64 (22.86%)
College or graduate school: 16 (5.71%)
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over: 684 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 157 (22.95%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 194 (28.36%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 217 (31.73%)
Some college, no degree: 57 (8.33%)
Associate degree: 9 (1.32%)
Bachelor's degree: 31 (4.53%)
Graduate or professional degree: 19 (2.78%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 48.7%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 7.3%
MARITIAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over: 807 (100%)
Never married: 246 (30.48%)
Now married, except separated: 379 (46.96%)
Separated: 30 (3.72%)
Total Widowed: 74 (9.17%)
Widowed Female: 62 (7.68%)
Total Divorced: 78 (9.67%)
Divorced Female: 36 (4.46%)
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 65 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 43 (66.15%)
VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over: 750 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 82 (10.93%)
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATIONPopulation 5 to 20 years: 261 (100%)
--With a disability: 21 (8.05%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 591 (100%)
--With a disability: 228 (38.58%)
----Percent employed: 56.6%
--No disability: 363 (61.42%)
----Percent employed: 72.5%
Population 65 years and over: 135 (100%)
--With a disability: 62 (45.93%)
RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over: 987 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 627 (63.53%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 304 (30.8%)
--Same county: 190 (19.25%)
--Different county: 114 (11.55%)
----Same state: 71 (7.19%)
----Different state: 43 (4.36%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 56 (5.67%)
NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population: 1,072 (100%)
Native: 1,001 (93.38%)
--Born in United States: 998 (100%)
----State of residence: 909 (84.79%)
----Different state: 89 (8.3%)
--Born outside United States: 3 (0.28%)
Foreign born: 71 (6.62%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 69 (6.44%)
--Naturalized citizen: 0 (0%)
--Not a citizen: 71 (6.62%)
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea): 71 (100%)
Europe: 0 (0%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 71 (100%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over: 987 (100%)
English only: 883 (89.46%)
Language other than English: 104 (10.54%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 78 (7.9%)
--Spanish: 100 (10.13%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 76 (7.7%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 4 (0.41%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2 (0.2%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population: 1,072 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 878% (81.9%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 10 (0.93%)
English: 36 (3.36%)
French (except Basque): 0 (0%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 19 (1.77%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 41 (3.82%)
Italian: 0 (0%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 2 (0.19%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 29 (2.71%)
Scottish: 7 (0.65%)
Slovak: 2 (0.19%)
Subsaharan African: 18 (1.68%)
Swedish: 0 (0%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 106 (9.89%)
Welsh: 5 (0.47%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 603 (56.25%)
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