DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tishomingo 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 | 19,163 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,842 | 100.0 | Native | 18,972 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 239 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 18,877 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 249 | 6.5 | State of residence | 12,403 | 64.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,141 | 55.7 | Different state | 6,474 | 33.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 838 | 21.8 | Born outside United States | 95 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 375 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 191 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 124 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 50 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 13,276 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 141 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,961 | 14.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,737 | 20.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,773 | 36.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 191 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,990 | 15.0 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 659 | 5.0 | Asia | 28 | 14.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 651 | 4.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 505 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 163 | 85.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,057 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,512 | 100.0 | English only | 17,598 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 2,492 | 16.1 | Language other than English | 459 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 9,591 | 61.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 191 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 321 | 2.1 | Spanish | 324 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,446 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 143 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,211 | 7.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 73 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,662 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 866 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 19,163 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 373 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,197 | 74.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 214 | 57.4 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,778 | 100.0 | Dutch | 156 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,814 | 12.3 | English | 1,317 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 194 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 771 | 4.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,862 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 327 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,918 | 100.0 | Irish� | 1,794 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,698 | 24.7 | Italian | 156 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 39.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 8,220 | 75.3 | Norwegian | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 75.0 | (X) | Polish | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,997 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,621 | 54.1 | Russian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 226 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 226 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,057 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,189 | 67.5 | Swedish | 48 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,735 | 31.8 | Swiss | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,364 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,371 | 13.1 | United States or American | 6,269 | 32.7 | |
| Same state | 1,022 | 5.7 | Welsh | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,349 | 7.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 133 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 2,840 | 14.8 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| � 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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