DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Claiborne 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 | 16,851 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,244 | 100.0 | Native | 16,791 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 326 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 16,751 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 295 | 7.0 | State of residence | 13,798 | 81.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,164 | 51.0 | Different state | 2,953 | 17.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,004 | 23.7 | Born outside United States | 40 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 455 | 10.7 | Foreign born | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 32 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,169 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,567 | 14.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,260 | 20.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,933 | 35.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 60 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,653 | 14.8 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 369 | 3.3 | Asia | 14 | 23.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 943 | 8.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 444 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 46 | 76.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,856 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,310 | 100.0 | English only | 15,576 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 3,515 | 26.4 | Language other than English | 280 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,598 | 49.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 92 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 496 | 3.7 | Spanish | 189 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,432 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,153 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 74 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,269 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 651 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 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 | 16,851 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 507 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,640 | 75.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 385 | 75.9 | Arab | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,547 | 100.0 | Dutch | 124 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,611 | 12.8 | English | 1,011 | 6.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 300 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 621 | 3.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,924 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 307 | 7.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,066 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 991 | 5.9 | |
| With a disability | 2,257 | 28.0 | Italian | 109 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 58.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,809 | 72.0 | Norwegian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 66.7 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,703 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,327 | 49.1 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 298 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 151 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,856 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 63 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,493 | 59.9 | Swedish | 59 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,327 | 39.9 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,877 | 24.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,450 | 15.5 | United States or American | 1,523 | 9.0 | |
| Same state | 1,477 | 9.3 | Welsh | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 973 | 6.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 36 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 7,271 | 43.1 | |
| 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
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