DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ouachita 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 | 28,790 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,398 | 100.0 | Native | 28,596 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 518 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 28,498 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 454 | 6.1 | State of residence | 23,120 | 80.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,453 | 46.7 | Different state | 5,378 | 18.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,008 | 27.1 | Born outside United States | 98 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 965 | 13.0 | Foreign born | 194 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 100 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 76 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,975 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 118 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,597 | 8.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,435 | 18.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,622 | 34.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 194 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,975 | 20.9 | Europe | 36 | 18.6 | |
| Associate degree | 931 | 4.9 | Asia | 39 | 20.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,673 | 8.8 | Africa | 23 | 11.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 742 | 3.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 87 | 44.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.5 | (X) | Northern America | 9 | 4.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 27,026 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 22,721 | 100.0 | English only | 26,413 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 4,787 | 21.1 | Language other than English | 613 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,677 | 55.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 162 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 601 | 2.6 | Spanish | 444 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,348 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 146 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,892 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 119 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 2,308 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 1,251 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 28,790 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 690 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 22,050 | 76.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 450 | 65.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 21,337 | 100.0 | Dutch | 228 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,057 | 14.3 | English | 1,455 | 5.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 514 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 84 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,184 | 4.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,784 | 100.0 | Greek | 13 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 644 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 15,213 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,957 | 6.8 | |
| With a disability | 4,121 | 27.1 | Italian | 195 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 48.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,092 | 72.9 | Norwegian | 73 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,823 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,467 | 51.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 461 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 199 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 27,026 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 140 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,832 | 62.3 | Swedish | 110 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,031 | 37.1 | Swiss | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,790 | 25.1 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,241 | 12.0 | United States or American | 3,559 | 12.4 | |
| Same state | 1,866 | 6.9 | Welsh | 41 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,375 | 5.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 163 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 11,748 | 40.8 | |
| 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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