DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA011- Clarke County, Kemper County, Lauderdale County, and Newton 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 128,407 100.0
      enrolled in school 34,284 100.0   Native 127,610 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 2,402 7.0       Born in United States 126,999 98.9
Kindergarten 1,848 5.4           State of residence 102,461 79.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 15,916 46.4           Different state 24,538 19.1
High school (grades 9-12) 7,537 22.0       Born outside United States 611 0.5
College or graduate school 6,581 19.2   Foreign born 797 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 299 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 378 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 81,213 100.0       Not a citizen 419 0.3
Less than 9th grade 7,282 9.0        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 15,012 18.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 24,551 30.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 797 100.0
Some college, no degree 17,261 21.3   Europe 195 24.5
Associate degree 5,657 7.0   Asia 258 32.4
Bachelor's degree 7,117 8.8   Africa 31 3.9
Graduate or professional degree 4,333 5.3   Oceania 14 1.8
        Latin America 273 34.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 72.5 (X)   Northern America 26 3.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 119,324 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 100,222 100.0   English only 115,850 97.1
Never married 26,199 26.1   Language other than English 3,474 2.9
Now married, except separated 51,536 51.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,157 1.0
Separated 2,921 2.9   Spanish 1,764 1.5
Widowed 9,399 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 448 0.4
 Female 7,788 7.8   Other Indo-European languages 713 0.6
Divorced 10,167 10.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 169 0.1
 Female 5,760 5.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 293 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 90 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 128,407 100.0
           under 18 years 3,128 100.0     Total ancestries reported 95,771 74.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,844 59.0   Arab 65 0.1
        Czech¹ 99 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 134 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 92,983 100.0   Dutch 741 0.6
Civilian veterans 11,956 12.9   English 6,926 5.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,730 1.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 222 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,759 3.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 31,035 100.0   Greek 108 0.1
With a disability 2,533 8.2   Hungarian 39 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 66,850 100.0   Irish¹ 7,884 6.1
With a disability 15,372 23.0   Italian 940 0.7
 Percent employed 47.4 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 51,478 77.0   Norwegian 200 0.2
 Percent employed 73.6 (X)   Polish 310 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 17,198 100.0   Portuguese 20 0.0
With a disability 8,969 52.2   Russian 80 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 2,725 2.1
        Scottish 1,564 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 9 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 119,324 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,066 0.8
Same house in 1995 73,097 61.3   Swedish 223 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 45,314 38.0   Swiss 48 0.0
 Same county 27,629 23.2   Ukrainian 30 0.0
 Different county 17,685 14.8   United States or American 17,336 13.5
  Same state 9,330 7.8   Welsh 173 0.1
  Different state 8,355 7.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 79 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 913 0.8   Other ancestries 48,261 37.6
 
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.