DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA016- Holmes County, Issaquena County, Sharkey County, Warren County, and Yazoo 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 108,256 100.0
      enrolled in school 30,859 100.0   Native 106,469 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 2,361 7.7       Born in United States 106,156 98.1
Kindergarten 2,216 7.2           State of residence 89,229 82.4
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 15,005 48.6           Different state 16,927 15.6
High school (grades 9-12) 7,539 24.4       Born outside United States 313 0.3
College or graduate school 3,738 12.1   Foreign born 1,787 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 573 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 456 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 65,418 100.0       Not a citizen 1,331 1.2
Less than 9th grade 8,049 12.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 12,009 18.4   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 18,293 28.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,787 100.0
Some college, no degree 13,169 20.1   Europe 285 15.9
Associate degree 3,511 5.4   Asia 350 19.6
Bachelor's degree 6,651 10.2   Africa 38 2.1
Graduate or professional degree 3,736 5.7   Oceania 8 0.4
        Latin America 1,068 59.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.3 (X)   Northern America 38 2.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 15.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 100,055 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 82,049 100.0   English only 96,563 96.5
Never married 26,893 32.8   Language other than English 3,492 3.5
Now married, except separated 36,690 44.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,236 1.2
Separated 3,341 4.1   Spanish 2,240 2.2
Widowed 7,723 9.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 938 0.9
 Female 6,155 7.5   Other Indo-European languages 865 0.9
Divorced 7,402 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 186 0.2
 Female 4,028 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 275 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 82 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 108,256 100.0
           under 18 years 3,877 100.0     Total ancestries reported 86,175 79.6
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,222 57.3   Arab 264 0.2
        Czech¹ 57 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 103 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 76,297 100.0   Dutch 607 0.6
Civilian veterans 8,165 10.7   English 5,013 4.6
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,119 1.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 247 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,692 3.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 28,540 100.0   Greek 86 0.1
With a disability 2,729 9.6   Hungarian 15 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 55,728 100.0   Irish¹ 5,476 5.1
With a disability 14,657 26.3   Italian 1,067 1.0
 Percent employed 43.3 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 41,071 73.7   Norwegian 205 0.2
 Percent employed 73.1 (X)   Polish 269 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 12,389 100.0   Portuguese 33 0.0
With a disability 6,701 54.1   Russian 54 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 2,099 1.9
        Scottish 1,043 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 14 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 100,055 100.0   Subsaharan African 907 0.8
Same house in 1995 61,209 61.2   Swedish 141 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 38,049 38.0   Swiss 38 0.0
 Same county 24,173 24.2   Ukrainian 3 0.0
 Different county 13,876 13.9   United States or American 9,354 8.6
  Same state 7,771 7.8   Welsh 151 0.1
  Different state 6,105 6.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 43 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 797 0.8   Other ancestries 54,075 50.0
 
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.