DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Quitman 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 | 10,117 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,901 | 100.0 | Native | 10,097 | 99.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 231 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 10,084 | 99.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 165 | 5.7 | State of residence | 9,038 | 89.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,606 | 55.4 | Different state | 1,046 | 10.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 662 | 22.8 | Born outside United States | 13 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 237 | 8.2 | Foreign born | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 9 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,906 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,184 | 20.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,467 | 24.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,477 | 25.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 20 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 863 | 14.6 | Europe | 2 | 10.0 | |
| Associate degree | 289 | 4.9 | Asia | 8 | 40.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 454 | 7.7 | Africa | 2 | 10.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 172 | 2.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 8 | 40.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 55.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,306 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,422 | 100.0 | English only | 9,172 | 98.6 | |
| Never married | 2,531 | 34.1 | Language other than English | 134 | 1.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,022 | 40.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 416 | 5.6 | Spanish | 88 | 0.9 | |
| Widowed | 802 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 52 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 639 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 35 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 651 | 8.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 353 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,117 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 545 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,267 | 81.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 269 | 49.4 | Arab | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Czech� | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,884 | 100.0 | Dutch | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 601 | 8.7 | English | 200 | 2.0 | |
| French (except Basque)� | 49 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian� | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 132 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,849 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 300 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,037 | 100.0 | Irish� | 320 | 3.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,562 | 31.0 | Italian | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 47.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,475 | 69.0 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 68.9 | (X) | Polish | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,290 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 687 | 53.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 57 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 28 | 0.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,306 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 69 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,231 | 67.0 | Swedish | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,053 | 32.8 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,824 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,229 | 13.2 | United States or American | 860 | 8.5 | |
| Same state | 776 | 8.3 | Welsh | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 453 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 22 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 6,463 | 63.9 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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