Piedmont, WV

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:5463604, place: Piedmont town, West Virginia)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 232 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 18 (7.76%)
Kindergarten: 11 (4.74%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 130 (56.03%)
High school (grades 9-12): 60 (25.86%)
College or graduate school: 13 (5.6%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 679 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 48 (7.07%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 133 (19.59%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 373 (54.93%)
Some college, no degree: 88 (12.96%)
Associate degree: 16 (2.36%)
Bachelor's degree: 18 (2.65%)
Graduate or professional degree: 3 (0.44%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 73.3%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 3.1%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 792 (100%)
Never married: 204 (25.76%)
Now married, except separated: 378 (47.73%)
Separated: 22 (2.78%)
Total Widowed: 87 (10.98%)
Widowed Female: 74 (9.34%)
Total Divorced: 101 (12.75%)
Divorced Female: 47 (5.93%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 29 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 17 (58.62%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 757 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 114 (15.06%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 238 (100%)
--With a disability: 24 (10.08%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 562 (100%)
--With a disability: 138 (24.56%)
----Percent employed: 44.2%
--No disability: 424 (75.44%)
----Percent employed: 68.4%
Population 65 years and over: 153 (100%)
--With a disability: 68 (44.44%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 953 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 583 (61.18%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 370 (38.82%)
--Same county: 217 (22.77%)
--Different county: 153 (16.05%)
----Same state: 26 (2.73%)
----Different state: 127 (13.33%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 0 (0%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,020 (100%)
Native: 1,000 (98.04%)
--Born in United States: 999 (100%)
----State of residence: 542 (53.14%)
----Different state: 457 (44.8%)
--Born outside United States: 1 (0.1%)
Foreign born: 20 (1.96%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 16 (1.57%)
--Naturalized citizen: 20 (1.96%)
--Not a citizen: 0 (0%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 20 (100%)
Europe: 2 (10%)
Asia: 2 (10%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 16 (80%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 953 (100%)
English only: 909 (95.38%)
Language other than English: 44 (4.62%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 18 (1.89%)
--Spanish: 23 (2.41%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 16 (1.68%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 16 (1.68%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 2 (0.21%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 5 (0.52%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,020 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 894% (87.65%)
Arab: 6 (0.59%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 15 (1.47%)
English: 58 (5.69%)
French (except Basque): 7 (0.69%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 105 (10.29%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 3 (0.29%)
Irish: 117 (11.47%)
Italian: 80 (7.84%)
Lithuanian: 2 (0.2%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 2 (0.2%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 1 (0.1%)
Scotch-Irish: 14 (1.37%)
Scottish: 18 (1.76%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 11 (1.08%)
Swedish: 2 (0.2%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 100 (9.8%)
Welsh: 7 (0.69%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 346 (33.92%)

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