
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Concordia 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 | 20,247 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,092 | 100.0 | Native | 19,988 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 392 | 7.7 | Born in United States | 19,949 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 364 | 7.1 | State of residence | 11,640 | 57.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,615 | 51.4 | Different state | 8,309 | 41.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,315 | 25.8 | Born outside United States | 39 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 406 | 8.0 | Foreign born | 259 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 54 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 71 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,814 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 188 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,861 | 14.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,678 | 20.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,417 | 34.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 259 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,284 | 17.8 | Europe | 18 | 6.9 | |
| Associate degree | 350 | 2.7 | Asia | 40 | 15.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 866 | 6.8 | Africa | 6 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 358 | 2.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 168 | 64.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.6 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 10.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,773 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,623 | 100.0 | English only | 18,177 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 4,178 | 26.7 | Language other than English | 596 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,130 | 52.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 497 | 3.2 | Spanish | 289 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 1,257 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 151 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 1,013 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 263 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 1,561 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 767 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 20,247 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 859 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 15,945 | 78.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 585 | 68.1 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,614 | 100.0 | Dutch | 56 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,732 | 11.9 | English | 877 | 4.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 728 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 100 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 642 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,935 | 100.0 | Greek | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 500 | 10.1 | Hungarian | 53 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,353 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,373 | 6.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,763 | 26.7 | Italian | 219 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 44.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,590 | 73.3 | Norwegian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 65.4 | (X) | Polish | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,771 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,396 | 50.4 | Russian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 283 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 140 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,773 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 82 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,240 | 65.2 | Swedish | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,435 | 34.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,808 | 20.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,627 | 14.0 | United States or American | 3,223 | 15.9 | |
| Same state | 1,175 | 6.3 | Welsh | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,452 | 7.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 98 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 7,984 | 39.4 | |
| 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)

