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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: McCurtain 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 34,402 100.0
      enrolled in school 8,723 100.0   Native 33,799 98.2
Nursery school, preschool 648 7.4       Born in United States 33,717 98.0
Kindergarten 593 6.8           State of residence 19,242 55.9
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 4,438 50.9           Different state 14,475 42.1
High school (grades 9-12) 2,136 24.5       Born outside United States 82 0.2
College or graduate school 908 10.4   Foreign born 603 1.8
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 299 0.9
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 158 0.5
  Population 25 years and over 21,875 100.0       Not a citizen 445 1.3
Less than 9th grade 2,507 11.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,222 19.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 7,913 36.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 603 100.0
Some college, no degree 3,919 17.9   Europe 76 12.6
Associate degree 953 4.4   Asia 21 3.5
Bachelor's degree 1,553 7.1   Africa 8 1.3
Graduate or professional degree 808 3.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 455 75.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.2 (X)   Northern America 43 7.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 10.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 31,808 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 26,404 100.0   English only 29,896 94.0
Never married 5,034 19.1   Language other than English 1,912 6.0
Now married, except separated 15,386 58.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 539 1.7
Separated 625 2.4   Spanish 923 2.9
Widowed 2,327 8.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 356 1.1
 Female 1,910 7.2   Other Indo-European languages 146 0.5
Divorced 3,032 11.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 17 0.1
 Female 1,753 6.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 17 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 13 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 34,402 100.0
           under 18 years 1,077 100.0     Total ancestries reported 26,561 77.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 751 69.7   Arab 8 0.0
        Czech¹ 29 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 16 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 24,793 100.0   Dutch 409 1.2
Civilian veterans 3,257 13.1   English 1,747 5.1
        French (except Basque)¹ 508 1.5
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 78 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 1,623 4.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 8,373 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 822 9.8   Hungarian 1 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 18,481 100.0   Irish¹ 2,523 7.3
With a disability 5,075 27.5   Italian 178 0.5
 Percent employed 47.9 (X)   Lithuanian 4 0.0
No disability 13,406 72.5   Norwegian 52 0.2
 Percent employed 70.9 (X)   Polish 96 0.3
     Population 65 years and over 4,441 100.0   Portuguese 14 0.0
With a disability 2,424 54.6   Russian 22 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 284 0.8
        Scottish 194 0.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 31,808 100.0   Subsaharan African 55 0.2
Same house in 1995 19,583 61.6   Swedish 52 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 11,980 37.7   Swiss 39 0.1
 Same county 8,289 26.1   Ukrainian 2 0.0
 Different county 3,691 11.6   United States or American 6,667 19.4
  Same state 1,423 4.5   Welsh 47 0.1
  Different state 2,268 7.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 186 0.5
Elsewhere in 1995 245 0.8   Other ancestries 11,727 34.1
 
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.
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