DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA003- Alcorn County, Itawamba County, Prentiss County, and Tishomingo 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 102,047 100.0
      enrolled in school 23,555 100.0   Native 101,276 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 1,281 5.4       Born in United States 100,963 98.9
Kindergarten 1,345 5.7           State of residence 75,522 74.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 11,488 48.8           Different state 25,441 24.9
High school (grades 9-12) 5,196 22.1       Born outside United States 313 0.3
College or graduate school 4,245 18.0   Foreign born 771 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 406 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 329 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 67,382 100.0       Not a citizen 442 0.4
Less than 9th grade 9,316 13.8        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 13,490 20.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 22,568 33.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 771 100.0
Some college, no degree 11,494 17.1   Europe 120 15.6
Associate degree 3,740 5.6   Asia 171 22.2
Bachelor's degree 4,211 6.2   Africa 11 1.4
Graduate or professional degree 2,563 3.8   Oceania 5 0.6
        Latin America 429 55.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.2 (X)   Northern America 35 4.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 95,525 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 81,636 100.0   English only 93,177 97.5
Never married 15,183 18.6   Language other than English 2,348 2.5
Now married, except separated 48,782 59.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 781 0.8
Separated 1,529 1.9   Spanish 1,607 1.7
Widowed 7,350 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 572 0.6
 Female 6,170 7.6   Other Indo-European languages 499 0.5
Divorced 8,792 10.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 104 0.1
 Female 4,717 5.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 161 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 87 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 102,047 100.0
           under 18 years 1,902 100.0     Total ancestries reported 70,984 69.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,130 59.4   Arab 19 0.0
        Czech¹ 37 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 20 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 77,430 100.0   Dutch 739 0.7
Civilian veterans 8,436 10.9   English 7,522 7.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 805 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 138 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,741 3.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 23,074 100.0   Greek 44 0.0
With a disability 1,834 7.9   Hungarian 23 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 57,077 100.0   Irish¹ 8,709 8.5
With a disability 14,986 26.3   Italian 665 0.7
 Percent employed 43.1 (X)   Lithuanian 18 0.0
No disability 42,091 73.7   Norwegian 144 0.1
 Percent employed 76.5 (X)   Polish 249 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 14,252 100.0   Portuguese 9 0.0
With a disability 7,439 52.2   Russian 51 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,140 1.1
        Scottish 966 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 5 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 95,525 100.0   Subsaharan African 223 0.2
Same house in 1995 62,174 65.1   Swedish 193 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 32,916 34.5   Swiss 72 0.1
 Same county 19,275 20.2   Ukrainian 3 0.0
 Different county 13,641 14.3   United States or American 27,067 26.5
  Same state 7,679 8.0   Welsh 141 0.1
  Different state 5,962 6.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 14 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 435 0.5   Other ancestries 18,227 17.9
 
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.