DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA020- Adams County, Amite County, Franklin County, Marion County, Pike County, Walthall County, and Wilkinson 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 146,390 100.0
      enrolled in school 38,741 100.0   Native 145,189 99.2
Nursery school, preschool 2,716 7.0       Born in United States 144,820 98.9
Kindergarten 2,448 6.3           State of residence 117,858 80.5
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 18,879 48.7           Different state 26,962 18.4
High school (grades 9-12) 9,610 24.8       Born outside United States 369 0.3
College or graduate school 5,088 13.1   Foreign born 1,201 0.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 404 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 706 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 92,614 100.0       Not a citizen 495 0.3
Less than 9th grade 10,372 11.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 18,593 20.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 30,484 32.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,201 100.0
Some college, no degree 16,963 18.3   Europe 242 20.1
Associate degree 4,418 4.8   Asia 544 45.3
Bachelor's degree 7,741 8.4   Africa 44 3.7
Graduate or professional degree 4,043 4.4   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 337 28.1
Percent high school graduate or higher 68.7 (X)   Northern America 34 2.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 136,559 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 113,828 100.0   English only 132,596 97.1
Never married 30,067 26.4   Language other than English 3,963 2.9
Now married, except separated 57,453 50.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,735 1.3
Separated 3,651 3.2   Spanish 2,231 1.6
Widowed 11,301 9.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,059 0.8
 Female 9,229 8.1   Other Indo-European languages 1,109 0.8
Divorced 11,356 10.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 280 0.2
 Female 6,199 5.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 538 0.4
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 347 0.3
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 146,390 100.0
           under 18 years 5,258 100.0     Total ancestries reported 115,269 78.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 3,220 61.2   Arab 77 0.1
        Czech¹ 48 0.0
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 66 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 106,422 100.0   Dutch 456 0.3
Civilian veterans 12,691 11.9   English 7,819 5.3
        French (except Basque)¹ 2,605 1.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 525 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 4,670 3.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 36,287 100.0   Greek 50 0.0
With a disability 3,398 9.4   Hungarian 39 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 76,643 100.0   Irish¹ 6,972 4.8
With a disability 22,231 29.0   Italian 1,774 1.2
 Percent employed 44.2 (X)   Lithuanian 5 0.0
No disability 54,412 71.0   Norwegian 230 0.2
 Percent employed 69.9 (X)   Polish 164 0.1
     Population 65 years and over 20,340 100.0   Portuguese 17 0.0
With a disability 11,107 54.6   Russian 37 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 2,671 1.8
        Scottish 1,257 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 136,559 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,444 1.0
Same house in 1995 88,887 65.1   Swedish 205 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 47,082 34.5   Swiss 22 0.0
 Same county 28,724 21.0   Ukrainian 4 0.0
 Different county 18,358 13.4   United States or American 20,197 13.8
  Same state 9,272 6.8   Welsh 176 0.1
  Different state 9,086 6.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 11 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 590 0.4   Other ancestries 63,728 43.5
 
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.