DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA002- Benton County, Lafayette County, Marshall County, and Tippah County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 102,589 100.0
      enrolled in school 31,772 100.0   Native 100,871 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 1,551 4.9       Born in United States 100,536 98.0
Kindergarten 1,374 4.3           State of residence 66,899 65.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 11,239 35.4           Different state 33,637 32.8
High school (grades 9-12) 5,491 17.3       Born outside United States 335 0.3
College or graduate school 12,117 38.1   Foreign born 1,718 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,129 1.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 502 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 60,777 100.0       Not a citizen 1,216 1.2
Less than 9th grade 7,269 12.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 12,331 20.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 18,174 29.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,718 100.0
Some college, no degree 10,472 17.2   Europe 279 16.2
Associate degree 2,549 4.2   Asia 469 27.3
Bachelor's degree 5,865 9.7   Africa 154 9.0
Graduate or professional degree 4,117 6.8   Oceania 6 0.3
        Latin America 737 42.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 67.8 (X)   Northern America 73 4.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 96,142 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 82,507 100.0   English only 92,622 96.3
Never married 26,566 32.2   Language other than English 3,520 3.7
Now married, except separated 40,510 49.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,205 1.3
Separated 2,183 2.6   Spanish 2,073 2.2
Widowed 5,847 7.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 882 0.9
 Female 4,666 5.7   Other Indo-European languages 865 0.9
Divorced 7,401 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 125 0.1
 Female 4,014 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 339 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 141 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 102,589 100.0
           under 18 years 2,453 100.0     Total ancestries reported 78,973 77.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,259 51.3   Arab 141 0.1
        Czech¹ 49 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 110 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 78,288 100.0   Dutch 854 0.8
Civilian veterans 7,455 9.5   English 7,164 7.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,239 1.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 171 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,370 4.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 25,583 100.0   Greek 97 0.1
With a disability 1,889 7.4   Hungarian 65 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 56,951 100.0   Irish¹ 6,688 6.5
With a disability 13,034 22.9   Italian 1,064 1.0
 Percent employed 46.9 (X)   Lithuanian 21 0.0
No disability 43,917 77.1   Norwegian 214 0.2
 Percent employed 72.6 (X)   Polish 384 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 11,391 100.0   Portuguese 64 0.1
With a disability 5,927 52.0   Russian 76 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 1,700 1.7
        Scottish 1,550 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 96,142 100.0   Subsaharan African 957 0.9
Same house in 1995 55,505 57.7   Swedish 303 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 39,149 40.7   Swiss 75 0.1
 Same county 16,861 17.5   Ukrainian 36 0.0
 Different county 22,288 23.2   United States or American 16,054 15.6
  Same state 11,761 12.2   Welsh 281 0.3
  Different state 10,527 10.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 14 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 1,488 1.5   Other ancestries 35,232 34.3
 
Date: September 17, 2007
 
-Represent zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable.
¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.