DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Obion 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 | 32,450 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,182 | 100.0 | Native | 32,015 | 98.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 566 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 31,923 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 426 | 5.9 | State of residence | 22,413 | 69.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,432 | 47.8 | Different state | 9,510 | 29.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,778 | 24.8 | Born outside United States | 92 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 980 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 435 | 1.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 258 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 91 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 22,119 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 344 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,425 | 11.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,987 | 18.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,143 | 41.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 435 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,729 | 16.9 | Europe | 44 | 10.1 | |
| Associate degree | 559 | 2.5 | Asia | 40 | 9.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,541 | 7.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 735 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 345 | 79.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.0 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 1.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,396 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,169 | 100.0 | English only | 29,463 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 4,793 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 933 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,902 | 60.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 458 | 1.5 | |
| Separated | 419 | 1.6 | Spanish | 648 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 2,376 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 396 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,973 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 211 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,679 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 41 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,372 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 32,450 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 556 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 23,034 | 71.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 336 | 60.4 | Arab | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 25 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,838 | 100.0 | Dutch | 266 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,277 | 13.2 | English | 2,572 | 7.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 324 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 38 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,195 | 6.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,743 | 100.0 | Greek | 11 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 640 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,648 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,063 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,274 | 22.9 | Italian | 202 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 48.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,374 | 77.1 | Norwegian | 55 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Polish | 194 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,631 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,329 | 50.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 595 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 289 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,396 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,130 | 59.6 | Swedish | 73 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,000 | 39.5 | Swiss | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 7,409 | 24.4 | Ukrainian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,591 | 15.1 | United States or American | 7,176 | 22.1 | |
| Same state | 2,062 | 6.8 | Welsh | 95 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,529 | 8.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 266 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 5,738 | 17.7 | |
| 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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