DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA007- Carroll County, Humphreys County, Leflore County, Sunflower County, and Tallahatchie 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 109,194 100.0
      enrolled in school 32,625 100.0   Native 108,312 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 2,201 6.7       Born in United States 108,105 99.0
Kindergarten 2,085 6.4           State of residence 97,473 89.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 15,280 46.8           Different state 10,632 9.7
High school (grades 9-12) 7,777 23.8       Born outside United States 207 0.2
College or graduate school 5,282 16.2   Foreign born 882 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 487 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 275 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 64,036 100.0       Not a citizen 607 0.6
Less than 9th grade 10,939 17.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 14,823 23.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 16,682 26.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 882 100.0
Some college, no degree 10,586 16.5   Europe 168 19.0
Associate degree 2,681 4.2   Asia 256 29.0
Bachelor's degree 5,615 8.8   Africa 30 3.4
Graduate or professional degree 2,710 4.2   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 418 47.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 59.8 (X)   Northern America 10 1.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 13.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 101,422 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 83,344 100.0   English only 98,463 97.1
Never married 31,434 37.7   Language other than English 2,959 2.9
Now married, except separated 34,065 40.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,019 1.0
Separated 3,891 4.7   Spanish 1,792 1.8
Widowed 7,397 8.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 716 0.7
 Female 6,064 7.3   Other Indo-European languages 707 0.7
Divorced 6,557 7.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 198 0.2
 Female 3,135 3.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 254 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 68 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 109,194 100.0
           under 18 years 4,791 100.0     Total ancestries reported 84,115 77.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,822 58.9   Arab 68 0.1
        Czech¹ 6 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 15 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 77,496 100.0   Dutch 375 0.3
Civilian veterans 6,778 8.7   English 2,954 2.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 592 0.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 87 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,866 1.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 29,648 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 2,948 9.9   Hungarian 9 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 52,627 100.0   Irish¹ 4,068 3.7
With a disability 15,873 30.2   Italian 736 0.7
 Percent employed 45.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 36,754 69.8   Norwegian 121 0.1
 Percent employed 68.5 (X)   Polish 82 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 12,028 100.0   Portuguese 5 0.0
With a disability 6,662 55.4   Russian 39 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,184 1.1
        Scottish 626 0.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 101,422 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,083 1.0
Same house in 1995 64,012 63.1   Swedish 115 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 36,478 36.0   Swiss 0 0.0
 Same county 22,681 22.4   Ukrainian 23 0.0
 Different county 13,797 13.6   United States or American 7,400 6.8
  Same state 9,897 9.8   Welsh 128 0.1
  Different state 3,900 3.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 48 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 932 0.9   Other ancestries 62,485 57.2
 
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.