DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Union 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 | 22,803 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,345 | 100.0 | Native | 22,522 | 98.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 335 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 22,462 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 382 | 7.1 | State of residence | 17,816 | 78.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,673 | 50.0 | Different state | 4,646 | 20.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,285 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 60 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 670 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 281 | 1.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 155 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 87 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,819 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 194 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,415 | 9.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,783 | 18.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,943 | 40.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 281 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,602 | 17.6 | Europe | 30 | 10.7 | |
| Associate degree | 327 | 2.2 | Asia | 10 | 3.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,196 | 8.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 553 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 224 | 79.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.7 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 6.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 21,183 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,958 | 100.0 | English only | 20,645 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 3,689 | 20.5 | Language other than English | 538 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,725 | 59.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 250 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 447 | 2.5 | Spanish | 387 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,533 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 229 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 1,221 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 124 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,564 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 778 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,803 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 523 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,852 | 73.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 311 | 59.5 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 14 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,942 | 100.0 | Dutch | 136 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,075 | 12.2 | English | 1,059 | 4.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 772 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 161 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 894 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,154 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 414 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,585 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,875 | 8.2 | |
| With a disability | 3,069 | 24.4 | Italian | 153 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 50.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,516 | 75.6 | Norwegian | 59 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 71.9 | (X) | Polish | 55 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,003 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,343 | 44.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 304 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 209 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 21,183 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,841 | 60.6 | Swedish | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 8,213 | 38.8 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,081 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,132 | 19.5 | United States or American | 3,616 | 15.9 | |
| Same state | 2,584 | 12.2 | Welsh | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,548 | 7.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 129 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 7,448 | 32.7 | |
| 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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