DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hardeman 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 | 28,105 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,246 | 100.0 | Native | 27,905 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 206 | 3.3 | Born in United States | 27,799 | 98.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 374 | 6.0 | State of residence | 20,744 | 73.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,185 | 51.0 | Different state | 7,055 | 25.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,874 | 30.0 | Born outside United States | 106 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 607 | 9.7 | Foreign born | 200 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 30 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 80 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,595 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 120 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,386 | 12.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,815 | 20.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,059 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 200 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,100 | 16.7 | Europe | 32 | 16.0 | |
| Associate degree | 790 | 4.2 | Asia | 63 | 31.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 832 | 4.5 | Africa | 13 | 6.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 613 | 3.3 | Oceania | 20 | 10.0 | |
| Latin America | 72 | 36.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 26,439 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 22,501 | 100.0 | English only | 25,272 | 95.6 | |
| Never married | 6,490 | 28.8 | Language other than English | 1,167 | 4.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,434 | 46.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 252 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 771 | 3.4 | Spanish | 520 | 2.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,797 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 109 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,446 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 367 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 3,009 | 13.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,220 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 162 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 78 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 28,105 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 996 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 21,327 | 75.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 583 | 58.5 | Arab | 42 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 63 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 43 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 21,355 | 100.0 | Dutch | 171 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,784 | 13.0 | English | 1,318 | 4.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 341 | 1.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,414 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,000 | 100.0 | Greek | 31 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 474 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,297 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,985 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,324 | 25.0 | Italian | 254 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 46.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 9,973 | 75.0 | Norwegian | 133 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 180 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,349 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,794 | 53.6 | Russian | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 376 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 256 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 26,439 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 349 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,340 | 58.0 | Swedish | 73 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,802 | 40.9 | Swiss | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,118 | 19.4 | Ukrainian | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,684 | 21.5 | United States or American | 3,008 | 10.7 | |
| Same state | 2,144 | 8.1 | Welsh | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 3,540 | 13.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 297 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 11,097 | 39.5 | |
| 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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