DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA017- Claiborne County, Copiah County, Covington County, Jefferson County, Jefferson Davis County, Lawrence County, Lincoln County, and Simpson 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 157,760 100.0
      enrolled in school 43,889 100.0   Native 156,741 99.4
Nursery school, preschool 2,993 6.8       Born in United States 156,336 99.1
Kindergarten 2,634 6.0           State of residence 136,220 86.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 20,391 46.5           Different state 20,116 12.8
High school (grades 9-12) 10,252 23.4       Born outside United States 405 0.3
College or graduate school 7,619 17.4   Foreign born 1,019 0.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 370 0.2
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 410 0.3
  Population 25 years and over 96,417 100.0       Not a citizen 609 0.4
Less than 9th grade 10,272 10.7        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 19,455 20.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 30,820 32.0     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,019 100.0
Some college, no degree 19,060 19.8   Europe 258 25.3
Associate degree 5,298 5.5   Asia 273 26.8
Bachelor's degree 7,626 7.9   Africa 54 5.3
Graduate or professional degree 3,886 4.0   Oceania 7 0.7
        Latin America 406 39.8
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.2 (X)   Northern America 21 2.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 146,784 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 122,262 100.0   English only 143,502 97.8
Never married 34,230 28.0   Language other than English 3,282 2.2
Now married, except separated 62,910 51.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,028 0.7
Separated 3,365 2.8   Spanish 1,900 1.3
Widowed 11,085 9.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 675 0.5
 Female 9,182 7.5   Other Indo-European languages 952 0.6
Divorced 10,672 8.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 250 0.2
 Female 5,957 4.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 238 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 53 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 157,760 100.0
           under 18 years 5,465 100.0     Total ancestries reported 116,538 73.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 3,278 60.0   Arab 84 0.1
        Czech¹ 28 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 26 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 114,142 100.0   Dutch 477 0.3
Civilian veterans 12,271 10.8   English 6,941 4.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,504 1.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 443 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 3,547 2.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 40,219 100.0   Greek 21 0.0
With a disability 3,450 8.6   Hungarian 44 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 84,373 100.0   Irish¹ 7,683 4.9
With a disability 22,828 27.1   Italian 858 0.5
 Percent employed 41.6 (X)   Lithuanian 6 0.0
No disability 61,545 72.9   Norwegian 163 0.1
 Percent employed 69.9 (X)   Polish 281 0.2
     Population 65 years and over 19,274 100.0   Portuguese 66 0.0
With a disability 10,469 54.3   Russian 56 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 2,653 1.7
        Scottish 1,126 0.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 36 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 146,784 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,152 0.7
Same house in 1995 96,929 66.0   Swedish 108 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 48,934 33.3   Swiss 46 0.0
 Same county 27,364 18.6   Ukrainian 9 0.0
 Different county 21,570 14.7   United States or American 23,742 15.0
  Same state 14,599 9.9   Welsh 271 0.2
  Different state 6,971 4.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 26 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 921 0.6   Other ancestries 65,141 41.3
 
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.