DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA008- Attala County, Choctaw County, Calhoun County, Grenada County, Montgomery County, Webster County, and Yalobusha 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 103,285 100.0
      enrolled in school 26,145 100.0   Native 102,485 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 1,814 6.9       Born in United States 102,187 98.9
Kindergarten 1,622 6.2           State of residence 89,143 86.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 13,626 52.1           Different state 13,044 12.6
High school (grades 9-12) 6,028 23.1       Born outside United States 298 0.3
College or graduate school 3,055 11.7   Foreign born 800 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 515 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 179 0.2
  Population 25 years and over 66,627 100.0       Not a citizen 621 0.6
Less than 9th grade 8,979 13.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 14,471 21.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 21,316 32.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 800 100.0
Some college, no degree 11,555 17.3   Europe 165 20.6
Associate degree 2,581 3.9   Asia 221 27.6
Bachelor's degree 5,270 7.9   Africa 4 0.5
Graduate or professional degree 2,455 3.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 390 48.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 64.8 (X)   Northern America 20 2.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 96,537 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 80,846 100.0   English only 94,137 97.5
Never married 19,299 23.9   Language other than English 2,400 2.5
Now married, except separated 43,139 53.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 972 1.0
Separated 2,690 3.3   Spanish 1,502 1.6
Widowed 8,345 10.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 661 0.7
 Female 7,084 8.8   Other Indo-European languages 673 0.7
Divorced 7,373 9.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 204 0.2
 Female 3,912 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 125 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 38 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 103,285 100.0
           under 18 years 3,293 100.0     Total ancestries reported 76,046 73.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,031 61.7   Arab 62 0.1
        Czech¹ 30 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 31 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 75,914 100.0   Dutch 902 0.9
Civilian veterans 8,739 11.5   English 5,910 5.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 806 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 167 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,849 2.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 24,876 100.0   Greek 22 0.0
With a disability 2,210 8.9   Hungarian 36 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 54,595 100.0   Irish¹ 7,430 7.2
With a disability 15,485 28.4   Italian 693 0.7
 Percent employed 45.3 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 39,110 71.6   Norwegian 104 0.1
 Percent employed 74.4 (X)   Polish 212 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 15,514 100.0   Portuguese 11 0.0
With a disability 8,839 57.0   Russian 35 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,594 1.5
        Scottish 886 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 96,537 100.0   Subsaharan African 579 0.6
Same house in 1995 62,092 64.3   Swedish 85 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 33,894 35.1   Swiss 10 0.0
 Same county 20,109 20.8   Ukrainian 10 0.0
 Different county 13,785 14.3   United States or American 15,990 15.5
  Same state 9,157 9.5   Welsh 168 0.2
  Different state 4,628 4.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 42 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 551 0.6   Other ancestries 37,382 36.2
 
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.