DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA010- Lowndes County, Monroe County, and Noxubee 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 112,148 100.0
      enrolled in school 31,437 100.0   Native 111,017 99.0
Nursery school, preschool 2,538 8.1       Born in United States 110,465 98.5
Kindergarten 1,978 6.3           State of residence 85,073 75.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 14,931 47.5           Different state 25,392 22.6
High school (grades 9-12) 7,234 23.0       Born outside United States 552 0.5
College or graduate school 4,756 15.1   Foreign born 1,131 1.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 404 0.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 528 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 69,264 100.0       Not a citizen 603 0.5
Less than 9th grade 7,828 11.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 12,840 18.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 21,346 30.8     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,131 100.0
Some college, no degree 13,181 19.0   Europe 367 32.4
Associate degree 2,923 4.2   Asia 303 26.8
Bachelor's degree 7,854 11.3   Africa 15 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 3,292 4.8   Oceania 6 0.5
        Latin America 375 33.2
Percent high school graduate or higher 70.2 (X)   Northern America 65 5.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 16.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 103,848 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 85,727 100.0   English only 100,953 97.2
Never married 23,038 26.9   Language other than English 2,895 2.8
Now married, except separated 45,591 53.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 857 0.8
Separated 2,565 3.0   Spanish 1,570 1.5
Widowed 7,080 8.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 589 0.6
 Female 6,005 7.0   Other Indo-European languages 951 0.9
Divorced 7,453 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 163 0.2
 Female 4,121 4.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 290 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 85 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 112,148 100.0
           under 18 years 2,951 100.0     Total ancestries reported 89,550 79.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,714 58.1   Arab 92 0.1
        Czech¹ 96 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 93 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 79,163 100.0   Dutch 886 0.8
Civilian veterans 9,574 12.1   English 6,561 5.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 944 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 360 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,756 4.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 28,120 100.0   Greek 59 0.1
With a disability 2,250 8.0   Hungarian 55 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 60,109 100.0   Irish¹ 6,662 5.9
With a disability 14,196 23.6   Italian 929 0.8
 Percent employed 47.2 (X)   Lithuanian 5 0.0
No disability 45,913 76.4   Norwegian 274 0.2
 Percent employed 73.0 (X)   Polish 474 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 12,856 100.0   Portuguese 14 0.0
With a disability 6,279 48.8   Russian 104 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 1,545 1.4
        Scottish 1,450 1.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 16 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 103,848 100.0   Subsaharan African 553 0.5
Same house in 1995 62,980 60.6   Swedish 274 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 40,056 38.6   Swiss 117 0.1
 Same county 25,298 24.4   Ukrainian 56 0.0
 Different county 14,758 14.2   United States or American 15,718 14.0
  Same state 6,445 6.2   Welsh 229 0.2
  Different state 8,313 8.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 46 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 812 0.8   Other ancestries 47,182 42.1
 
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.