
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stone County
[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 | 13,622 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,916 | 100.0 | Native | 13,489 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 259 | 6.6 | Born in United States | 13,397 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 249 | 6.4 | State of residence | 10,100 | 74.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,690 | 43.2 | Different state | 3,297 | 24.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 748 | 19.1 | Born outside United States | 92 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 970 | 24.8 | Foreign born | 133 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 60 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 65 | 0.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,258 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 68 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 692 | 8.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,390 | 16.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,491 | 30.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 133 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,813 | 22.0 | Europe | 34 | 25.6 | |
| Associate degree | 845 | 10.2 | Asia | 32 | 24.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 668 | 8.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 359 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 67 | 50.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.8 | (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 | 12,689 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,588 | 100.0 | English only | 12,213 | 96.2 | |
| Never married | 2,723 | 25.7 | Language other than English | 476 | 3.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,040 | 57.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 210 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 191 | 1.8 | Spanish | 338 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 627 | 5.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 148 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 533 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 125 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,007 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 535 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,622 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 410 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 11,092 | 81.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 215 | 52.4 | Arab | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,910 | 100.0 | Dutch | 132 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,537 | 15.5 | English | 1,120 | 8.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 780 | 5.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 75 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 769 | 5.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,684 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 400 | 10.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,434 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,327 | 9.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,833 | 24.7 | Italian | 268 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 41.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 5,601 | 75.3 | Norwegian | 52 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 76.8 | (X) | Polish | 59 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,429 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 805 | 56.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 276 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 123 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,689 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,072 | 55.7 | Swedish | 40 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,517 | 43.5 | Swiss | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,546 | 20.1 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,971 | 23.4 | United States or American | 2,405 | 17.7 | |
| Same state | 1,793 | 14.1 | Welsh | 55 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,178 | 9.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 100 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 3,486 | 25.6 | |
| 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)

