DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA019- Forrest County and Lamar 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 111,674 100.0
      enrolled in school 36,219 100.0   Native 109,794 98.3
Nursery school, preschool 1,939 5.4       Born in United States 109,094 97.7
Kindergarten 1,769 4.9           State of residence 82,522 73.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 13,242 36.6           Different state 26,572 23.8
High school (grades 9-12) 6,082 16.8       Born outside United States 700 0.6
College or graduate school 13,187 36.4   Foreign born 1,880 1.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 1,153 1.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 598 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 65,381 100.0       Not a citizen 1,282 1.1
Less than 9th grade 4,090 6.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 8,568 13.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 18,011 27.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,880 100.0
Some college, no degree 15,006 23.0   Europe 507 27.0
Associate degree 3,820 5.8   Asia 884 47.0
Bachelor's degree 10,134 15.5   Africa 32 1.7
Graduate or professional degree 5,752 8.8   Oceania 21 1.1
        Latin America 371 19.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.6 (X)   Northern America 65 3.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 24.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 104,041 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 87,911 100.0   English only 100,091 96.2
Never married 27,569 31.4   Language other than English 3,950 3.8
Now married, except separated 43,561 49.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,443 1.4
Separated 1,797 2.0   Spanish 1,980 1.9
Widowed 5,854 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 664 0.6
 Female 5,013 5.7   Other Indo-European languages 966 0.9
Divorced 9,130 10.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 261 0.3
 Female 5,415 6.2   Asian and Pacific Island languages 827 0.8
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 468 0.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 111,674 100.0
           under 18 years 2,436 100.0     Total ancestries reported 93,099 83.4
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,352 55.5   Arab 313 0.3
        Czech¹ 52 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 75 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 82,386 100.0   Dutch 675 0.6
Civilian veterans 9,851 12.0   English 8,265 7.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,998 2.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 587 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 6,956 6.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 28,373 100.0   Greek 164 0.1
With a disability 2,626 9.3   Hungarian 157 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 62,254 100.0   Irish¹ 9,583 8.6
With a disability 13,342 21.4   Italian 1,629 1.5
 Percent employed 52.6 (X)   Lithuanian 13 0.0
No disability 48,912 78.6   Norwegian 425 0.4
 Percent employed 75.3 (X)   Polish 451 0.4
     Population 65 years and over 11,166 100.0   Portuguese 56 0.1
With a disability 5,581 50.0   Russian 239 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 3,426 3.1
        Scottish 2,271 2.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 43 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 104,041 100.0   Subsaharan African 773 0.7
Same house in 1995 51,456 49.5   Swedish 350 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 51,263 49.3   Swiss 64 0.1
 Same county 21,897 21.0   Ukrainian 34 0.0
 Different county 29,366 28.2   United States or American 18,469 16.5
  Same state 18,792 18.1   Welsh 433 0.4
  Different state 10,574 10.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 102 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 1,322 1.3   Other ancestries 34,496 30.9
 
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.