DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Acadia Parish
[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 | 58,861 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 16,063 | 100.0 | Native | 58,603 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,186 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 58,517 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 885 | 5.5 | State of residence | 53,613 | 91.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,358 | 52.0 | Different state | 4,904 | 8.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,750 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 86 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,884 | 11.7 | Foreign born | 258 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 78 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 130 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 35,573 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 128 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,215 | 17.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,343 | 17.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,535 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 258 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,902 | 13.8 | Europe | 49 | 19.0 | |
| Associate degree | 1,217 | 3.4 | Asia | 97 | 37.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,230 | 6.3 | Africa | 32 | 12.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,131 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 67 | 26.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.7 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 5.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 54,250 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 44,351 | 100.0 | English only | 43,412 | 80.0 | |
| Never married | 10,878 | 24.5 | Language other than English | 10,838 | 20.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 25,131 | 56.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,207 | 4.1 | |
| Separated | 1,010 | 2.3 | Spanish | 242 | 0.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,375 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 68 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 2,751 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 10,421 | 19.2 | |
| Divorced | 3,957 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,064 | 3.8 | |
| Female | 2,297 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 145 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 58,861 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,381 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 51,951 | 88.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 863 | 62.5 | Arab | 194 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 19 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 41,277 | 100.0 | Dutch | 47 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,422 | 10.7 | English | 1,874 | 3.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 11,142 | 18.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8,597 | 14.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,146 | 7.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,618 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,555 | 10.0 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 31,038 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,863 | 3.2 | |
| With a disability | 7,938 | 25.6 | Italian | 724 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 42.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 23,100 | 74.4 | Norwegian | 97 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 68.4 | (X) | Polish | 63 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,696 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,469 | 51.8 | Russian | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 231 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 220 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 54,250 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 228 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 34,897 | 64.3 | Swedish | 51 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 19,088 | 35.2 | Swiss | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 12,340 | 22.7 | Ukrainian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,748 | 12.4 | United States or American | 9,905 | 16.8 | |
| Same state | 4,332 | 8.0 | Welsh | 74 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 2,416 | 4.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 265 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 12,341 | 21.0 | |
| 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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