
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Chickasaw 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 | 13,095 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,365 | 100.0 | Native | 12,976 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 244 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 12,951 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 166 | 4.9 | State of residence | 11,630 | 88.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,624 | 48.3 | Different state | 1,321 | 10.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 885 | 26.3 | Born outside United States | 25 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 446 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 119 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 78 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 54 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,797 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 65 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 748 | 8.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 708 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,981 | 45.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 119 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,696 | 19.3 | Europe | 20 | 16.8 | |
| Associate degree | 589 | 6.7 | Asia | 59 | 49.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 794 | 9.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 281 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 36 | 30.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 83.4 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 3.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,347 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,387 | 100.0 | English only | 11,991 | 97.1 | |
| Never married | 2,232 | 21.5 | Language other than English | 356 | 2.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,541 | 63.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 117 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 62 | 0.6 | Spanish | 130 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 882 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 64 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 736 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 200 | 1.6 | |
| Divorced | 670 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 317 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,095 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 70 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,725 | 112.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 49 | 70.0 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 743 | 5.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 219 | 1.7 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,678 | 100.0 | Dutch | 242 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,299 | 13.4 | English | 941 | 7.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 289 | 2.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 7,252 | 55.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,042 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 183 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,950 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,006 | 15.3 | |
| With a disability | 812 | 11.7 | Italian | 135 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 60.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,138 | 88.3 | Norwegian | 1,272 | 9.7 | |
| Percent employed | 81.3 | (X) | Polish | 59 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,174 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 760 | 35.0 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 158 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 104 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,347 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,373 | 67.8 | Swedish | 150 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,931 | 31.8 | Swiss | 86 | 0.7 | |
| Same county | 2,386 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,545 | 12.5 | United States or American | 586 | 4.5 | |
| Same state | 1,203 | 9.7 | Welsh | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 342 | 2.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 43 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 404 | 3.1 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

