
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hickman 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 | 22,295 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,976 | 100.0 | Native | 22,119 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 345 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 22,070 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 309 | 6.2 | State of residence | 15,978 | 71.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,560 | 51.4 | Different state | 6,092 | 27.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,305 | 26.2 | Born outside United States | 49 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 457 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 176 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 91 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 52 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,899 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 124 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,160 | 14.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,164 | 21.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,569 | 37.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 176 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,397 | 16.1 | Europe | 77 | 43.8 | |
| Associate degree | 616 | 4.1 | Asia | 23 | 13.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 625 | 4.2 | Africa | 10 | 5.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 368 | 2.5 | Oceania | 15 | 8.5 | |
| Latin America | 34 | 19.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.3 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 9.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 6.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 20,828 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 17,706 | 100.0 | English only | 20,297 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 3,467 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 531 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,792 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 163 | 0.8 | |
| Separated | 265 | 1.5 | Spanish | 342 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,287 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 131 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,099 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 176 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,895 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 830 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,295 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 216 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,314 | 77.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 69 | 31.9 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,786 | 100.0 | Dutch | 204 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,161 | 12.9 | English | 1,744 | 7.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 345 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 127 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,504 | 6.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,772 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 528 | 11.1 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,102 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,436 | 10.9 | |
| With a disability | 3,294 | 27.2 | Italian | 384 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 46.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,808 | 72.8 | Norwegian | 85 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 350 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,557 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,282 | 50.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 244 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 271 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 20,828 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 100 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,612 | 55.8 | Swedish | 111 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,163 | 44.0 | Swiss | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,644 | 17.5 | Ukrainian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 5,519 | 26.5 | United States or American | 5,740 | 25.7 | |
| Same state | 3,518 | 16.9 | Welsh | 82 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,001 | 9.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 53 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,489 | 15.6 | |
| 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)

