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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jackson 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 41,335 100.0
      enrolled in school 9,233 100.0   Native 40,344 97.6
Nursery school, preschool 588 6.4       Born in United States 40,194 97.2
Kindergarten 628 6.8           State of residence 32,724 79.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 4,762 51.6           Different state 7,470 18.1
High school (grades 9-12) 2,164 23.4       Born outside United States 150 0.4
College or graduate school 1,091 11.8   Foreign born 991 2.4
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 744 1.8
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 247 0.6
  Population 25 years and over 27,131 100.0       Not a citizen 744 1.8
Less than 9th grade 1,706 6.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 3,768 13.9   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 12,673 46.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 991 100.0
Some college, no degree 4,517 16.6   Europe 109 11.0
Associate degree 1,360 5.0   Asia 277 28.0
Bachelor's degree 1,972 7.3   Africa 22 2.2
Graduate or professional degree 1,135 4.2   Oceania 7 0.7
        Latin America 524 52.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 79.8 (X)   Northern America 52 5.2
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 11.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 38,381 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 32,496 100.0   English only 36,735 95.7
Never married 6,258 19.3   Language other than English 1,646 4.3
Now married, except separated 20,001 61.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 867 2.3
Separated 355 1.1   Spanish 1,033 2.7
Widowed 2,187 6.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 632 1.6
 Female 1,908 5.9   Other Indo-European languages 318 0.8
Divorced 3,695 11.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 50 0.1
 Female 1,926 5.9   Asian and Pacific Island languages 249 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 185 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 41,335 100.0
           under 18 years 795 100.0     Total ancestries reported 33,450 80.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 474 59.6   Arab 12 0.0
        Czech¹ 60 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 37 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 30,756 100.0   Dutch 687 1.7
Civilian veterans 3,788 12.3   English 2,994 7.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 805 1.9
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 105 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 9,923 24.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 9,072 100.0   Greek 80 0.2
With a disability 741 8.2   Hungarian 32 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 23,718 100.0   Irish¹ 3,538 8.6
With a disability 5,145 21.7   Italian 493 1.2
 Percent employed 63.8 (X)   Lithuanian 12 0.0
No disability 18,573 78.3   Norwegian 161 0.4
 Percent employed 79.2 (X)   Polish 213 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 5,068 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 2,150 42.4   Russian 6 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 395 1.0
        Scottish 566 1.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 64 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 38,381 100.0   Subsaharan African 15 0.0
Same house in 1995 22,386 58.3   Swedish 114 0.3
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 15,424 40.2   Swiss 67 0.2
 Same county 9,641 25.1   Ukrainian 17 0.0
 Different county 5,783 15.1   United States or American 9,332 22.6
  Same state 3,518 9.2   Welsh 148 0.4
  Different state 2,265 5.9   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 5 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 571 1.5   Other ancestries 3,569 8.6
 
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.
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