DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lamar 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 | 15,912 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,354 | 100.0 | Native | 15,748 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 379 | 8.7 | Born in United States | 15,659 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 237 | 5.4 | State of residence | 12,784 | 80.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,834 | 42.1 | Different state | 2,875 | 18.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 753 | 17.3 | Born outside United States | 89 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,151 | 26.4 | Foreign born | 164 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 84 | 0.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 72 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,227 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 92 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 952 | 9.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,979 | 19.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,789 | 37.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 164 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,912 | 18.7 | Europe | 15 | 9.1 | |
| Associate degree | 444 | 4.3 | Asia | 25 | 15.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 690 | 6.7 | Africa | 19 | 11.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 461 | 4.5 | Oceania | 6 | 3.7 | |
| Latin America | 99 | 60.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,932 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,587 | 100.0 | English only | 14,508 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 3,265 | 25.9 | Language other than English | 424 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,578 | 52.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 160 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 261 | 2.1 | Spanish | 263 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,017 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 785 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 132 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 1,466 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 799 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,912 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 459 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,545 | 78.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 258 | 56.2 | Arab | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 29 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,002 | 100.0 | Dutch | 123 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,773 | 14.8 | English | 855 | 5.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 242 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 42 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 869 | 5.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,982 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 421 | 10.6 | Hungarian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,807 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,095 | 6.9 | |
| With a disability | 2,150 | 24.4 | Italian | 149 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,657 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.2 | (X) | Polish | 43 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,858 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 32 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 814 | 43.8 | Russian | 36 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 261 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 293 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,932 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 214 | 1.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,563 | 57.3 | Swedish | 46 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,206 | 41.6 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,468 | 16.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,738 | 25.0 | United States or American | 3,215 | 20.2 | |
| Same state | 2,911 | 19.5 | Welsh | 49 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 827 | 5.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 163 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 4,863 | 30.6 | |
| 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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