DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA006- Bolivar County and Washington 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 103,610 100.0
      enrolled in school 33,360 100.0   Native 102,875 99.3
Nursery school, preschool 2,645 7.9       Born in United States 102,645 99.1
Kindergarten 2,090 6.3           State of residence 89,536 86.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 15,031 45.1           Different state 13,109 12.7
High school (grades 9-12) 7,698 23.1       Born outside United States 230 0.2
College or graduate school 5,896 17.7   Foreign born 735 0.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 309 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 297 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 59,808 100.0       Not a citizen 438 0.4
Less than 9th grade 8,616 14.4        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 11,689 19.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 16,167 27.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 735 100.0
Some college, no degree 10,417 17.4   Europe 112 15.2
Associate degree 2,557 4.3   Asia 223 30.3
Bachelor's degree 6,815 11.4   Africa 65 8.8
Graduate or professional degree 3,547 5.9   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 285 38.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 66.0 (X)   Northern America 50 6.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 95,376 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 77,620 100.0   English only 92,654 97.1
Never married 28,764 37.1   Language other than English 2,722 2.9
Now married, except separated 31,794 41.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,042 1.1
Separated 3,300 4.3   Spanish 1,448 1.5
Widowed 7,096 9.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 607 0.6
 Female 5,933 7.6   Other Indo-European languages 889 0.9
Divorced 6,666 8.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 259 0.3
 Female 3,686 4.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 267 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 102 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 103,610 100.0
           under 18 years 4,743 100.0     Total ancestries reported 83,478 80.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,818 59.4   Arab 317 0.3
        Czech¹ 22 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 54 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 71,843 100.0   Dutch 534 0.5
Civilian veterans 6,705 9.3   English 3,157 3.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 801 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 117 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,464 2.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 28,883 100.0   Greek 102 0.1
With a disability 2,739 9.5   Hungarian 11 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 54,019 100.0   Irish¹ 4,087 3.9
With a disability 13,341 24.7   Italian 1,882 1.8
 Percent employed 43.8 (X)   Lithuanian 17 0.0
No disability 40,678 75.3   Norwegian 108 0.1
 Percent employed 67.2 (X)   Polish 109 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 11,153 100.0   Portuguese 34 0.0
With a disability 5,916 53.0   Russian 27 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,319 1.3
        Scottish 688 0.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 11 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 95,376 100.0   Subsaharan African 923 0.9
Same house in 1995 58,251 61.1   Swedish 80 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 36,127 37.9   Swiss 21 0.0
 Same county 25,947 27.2   Ukrainian 3 0.0
 Different county 10,180 10.7   United States or American 6,860 6.6
  Same state 5,228 5.5   Welsh 78 0.1
  Different state 4,952 5.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 998 1.0   Other ancestries 59,650 57.6
 
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.