DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jefferson 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 | 455,466 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 121,830 | 100.0 | Native | 421,404 | 92.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 9,647 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 418,159 | 91.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 6,912 | 5.7 | State of residence | 345,683 | 75.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 52,751 | 43.3 | Different state | 72,476 | 15.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 27,131 | 22.3 | Born outside United States | 3,245 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 25,389 | 20.8 | Foreign born | 34,062 | 7.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 10,917 | 2.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 17,850 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 298,761 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16,212 | 3.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 21,124 | 7.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 40,821 | 13.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 89,528 | 30.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 34,062 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 69,824 | 23.4 | Europe | 3,059 | 9.0 | |
| Associate degree | 13,248 | 4.4 | Asia | 11,019 | 32.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 43,345 | 14.5 | Africa | 693 | 2.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 20,871 | 7.0 | Oceania | 60 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 18,757 | 55.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.3 | (X) | Northern America | 474 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 425,529 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 360,815 | 100.0 | English only | 370,259 | 87.0 | |
| Never married | 100,981 | 28.0 | Language other than English | 55,270 | 13.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 183,105 | 50.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20,884 | 4.9 | |
| Separated | 8,844 | 2.5 | Spanish | 29,285 | 6.9 | |
| Widowed | 25,730 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,193 | 2.6 | |
| Female | 21,237 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 13,543 | 3.2 | |
| Divorced | 42,155 | 11.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,605 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 24,352 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 10,439 | 2.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,457 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 455,466 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 12,476 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 490,382 | 107.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 5,922 | 47.5 | Arab | 2,703 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 513 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 613 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 339,380 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,781 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 41,109 | 12.1 | English | 22,171 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 84,817 | 18.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11,344 | 2.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 57,239 | 12.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 102,321 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,321 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 9,275 | 9.1 | Hungarian | 588 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 266,448 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 44,608 | 9.8 | |
| With a disability | 55,410 | 20.8 | Italian | 52,020 | 11.4 | |
| Percent employed | 57.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 166 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 211,038 | 79.2 | Norwegian | 1,861 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 76.1 | (X) | Polish | 2,779 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 52,714 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 370 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 23,847 | 45.2 | Russian | 1,475 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,774 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,817 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 180 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 425,529 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3,535 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 261,353 | 61.4 | Swedish | 1,337 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 158,057 | 37.1 | Swiss | 427 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 101,041 | 23.7 | Ukrainian | 390 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 57,016 | 13.4 | United States or American | 24,914 | 5.5 | |
| Same state | 35,795 | 8.4 | Welsh | 1,072 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 21,221 | 5.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,539 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,119 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 161,028 | 35.4 | |
| 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)
