DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA012- Jasper County, Leake County, Neshoba County, Scott County, and Smith 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 112,378 100.0
      enrolled in school 28,758 100.0   Native 110,529 98.4
Nursery school, preschool 2,027 7.0       Born in United States 110,186 98.0
Kindergarten 2,112 7.3           State of residence 97,069 86.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 14,554 50.6           Different state 13,117 11.7
High school (grades 9-12) 7,049 24.5       Born outside United States 343 0.3
College or graduate school 3,016 10.5   Foreign born 1,849 1.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,137 1.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 436 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 69,973 100.0       Not a citizen 1,413 1.3
Less than 9th grade 8,466 12.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 15,395 22.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 23,247 33.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,849 100.0
Some college, no degree 12,363 17.7   Europe 135 7.3
Associate degree 3,394 4.9   Asia 270 14.6
Bachelor's degree 4,768 6.8   Africa 6 0.3
Graduate or professional degree 2,340 3.3   Oceania 20 1.1
        Latin America 1,412 76.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 65.9 (X)   Northern America 6 0.3
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 104,174 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 86,349 100.0   English only 97,184 93.3
Never married 20,693 24.0   Language other than English 6,990 6.7
Now married, except separated 47,019 54.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,429 3.3
Separated 2,319 2.7   Spanish 2,740 2.6
Widowed 7,961 9.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,568 1.5
 Female 6,607 7.7   Other Indo-European languages 536 0.5
Divorced 8,357 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 120 0.1
 Female 4,550 5.3   Asian and Pacific Island languages 196 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 72 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 112,378 100.0
           under 18 years 3,827 100.0     Total ancestries reported 80,778 71.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,297 60.0   Arab 91 0.1
        Czech¹ 38 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 24 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 80,827 100.0   Dutch 596 0.5
Civilian veterans 8,230 10.2   English 4,734 4.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 945 0.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 127 0.1
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,416 2.1
     Population 5 to 20 years 27,947 100.0   Greek 14 0.0
With a disability 2,693 9.6   Hungarian 43 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 59,650 100.0   Irish¹ 6,959 6.2
With a disability 16,615 27.9   Italian 487 0.4
 Percent employed 47.4 (X)   Lithuanian 5 0.0
No disability 43,035 72.1   Norwegian 67 0.1
 Percent employed 74.2 (X)   Polish 132 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 14,709 100.0   Portuguese 23 0.0
With a disability 8,267 56.2   Russian 15 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 1,394 1.2
        Scottish 776 0.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 104,174 100.0   Subsaharan African 687 0.6
Same house in 1995 68,993 66.2   Swedish 103 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 34,270 32.9   Swiss 27 0.0
 Same county 20,056 19.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 14,214 13.6   United States or American 19,675 17.5
  Same state 9,491 9.1   Welsh 159 0.1
  Different state 4,723 4.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 21 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 911 0.9   Other ancestries 41,220 36.7
 
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.