DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hot Spring 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 | 30,353 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,183 | 100.0 | Native | 29,974 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 600 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 29,871 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 353 | 4.9 | State of residence | 22,898 | 75.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,568 | 49.7 | Different state | 6,973 | 23.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,657 | 23.1 | Born outside United States | 103 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,005 | 14.0 | Foreign born | 379 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 166 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 130 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,260 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 249 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,821 | 9.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,598 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,036 | 39.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 379 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,727 | 18.4 | Europe | 107 | 28.2 | |
| Associate degree | 811 | 4.0 | Asia | 28 | 7.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,603 | 7.9 | Africa | 4 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 664 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 212 | 55.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.3 | (X) | Northern America | 28 | 7.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 28,372 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 24,083 | 100.0 | English only | 27,636 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 4,024 | 16.7 | Language other than English | 736 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,153 | 62.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 242 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 356 | 1.5 | Spanish | 549 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 1,913 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 197 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,588 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 133 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,637 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,428 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 30,353 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 743 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 23,612 | 77.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 538 | 72.4 | Arab | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 22 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 51 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 22,766 | 100.0 | Dutch | 539 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,553 | 15.6 | English | 1,900 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 422 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 59 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,348 | 7.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,786 | 100.0 | Greek | 27 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 694 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,753 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,152 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,085 | 24.4 | Italian | 242 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 51.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,668 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 54 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.7 | (X) | Polish | 124 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,548 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,156 | 47.4 | Russian | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 358 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 329 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 28,372 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,265 | 57.3 | Swedish | 68 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 11,947 | 42.1 | Swiss | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 6,111 | 21.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,836 | 20.6 | United States or American | 7,144 | 23.5 | |
| Same state | 3,947 | 13.9 | Welsh | 84 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,889 | 6.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 160 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 6,580 | 21.7 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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