DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: PUMA021- George County, Hancock County, Pearl River County, and Stone 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 124,354 100.0
      enrolled in school 31,546 100.0   Native 122,785 98.7
Nursery school, preschool 1,968 6.2       Born in United States 122,062 98.2
Kindergarten 2,024 6.4           State of residence 67,116 54.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 15,567 49.3           Different state 54,946 44.2
High school (grades 9-12) 7,087 22.5       Born outside United States 723 0.6
College or graduate school 4,900 15.5   Foreign born 1,569 1.3
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 579 0.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 789 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 79,876 100.0       Not a citizen 780 0.6
Less than 9th grade 6,756 8.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 13,149 16.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 25,176 31.5     Total (excluding born at sea) 1,569 100.0
Some college, no degree 17,843 22.3   Europe 459 29.3
Associate degree 5,577 7.0   Asia 363 23.1
Bachelor's degree 7,211 9.0   Africa 18 1.1
Graduate or professional degree 4,164 5.2   Oceania 30 1.9
        Latin America 620 39.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 75.1 (X)   Northern America 79 5.0
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 14.2 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 115,872 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 96,874 100.0   English only 111,550 96.3
Never married 20,218 20.9   Language other than English 4,322 3.7
Now married, except separated 57,081 58.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,476 1.3
Separated 2,112 2.2   Spanish 2,387 2.1
Widowed 7,073 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 882 0.8
 Female 5,853 6.0   Other Indo-European languages 1,592 1.4
Divorced 10,390 10.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 440 0.4
 Female 5,508 5.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 253 0.2
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 130 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 124,354 100.0
           under 18 years 3,216 100.0     Total ancestries reported 109,553 88.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,708 53.1   Arab 131 0.1
        Czech¹ 226 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 258 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 90,880 100.0   Dutch 990 0.8
Civilian veterans 14,363 15.8   English 10,067 8.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 12,556 10.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 1,448 1.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 10,999 8.8
     Population 5 to 20 years 29,994 100.0   Greek 274 0.2
With a disability 2,903 9.7   Hungarian 118 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 69,331 100.0   Irish¹ 12,197 9.8
With a disability 19,261 27.8   Italian 5,109 4.1
 Percent employed 46.6 (X)   Lithuanian 58 0.0
No disability 50,070 72.2   Norwegian 529 0.4
 Percent employed 71.3 (X)   Polish 785 0.6
     Population 65 years and over 15,184 100.0   Portuguese 111 0.1
With a disability 7,644 50.3   Russian 226 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 2,405 1.9
        Scottish 1,434 1.2
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 34 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 115,872 100.0   Subsaharan African 242 0.2
Same house in 1995 66,430 57.3   Swedish 658 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 48,643 42.0   Swiss 123 0.1
 Same county 23,461 20.2   Ukrainian 100 0.1
 Different county 25,182 21.7   United States or American 22,849 18.4
  Same state 8,881 7.7   Welsh 472 0.4
  Different state 16,301 14.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 105 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 799 0.7   Other ancestries 25,049 20.1
 
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.