
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 | 4,724 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,135 | 100.0 | Native | 4,605 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 108 | 9.5 | Born in United States | 4,591 | 97.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 6.1 | State of residence | 3,755 | 79.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 534 | 47.0 | Different state | 836 | 17.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 325 | 28.6 | Born outside United States | 14 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 99 | 8.7 | Foreign born | 119 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 47 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 55 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,135 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 64 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 411 | 13.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 508 | 16.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,043 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 119 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 686 | 21.9 | Europe | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Associate degree | 87 | 2.8 | Asia | 20 | 16.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 251 | 8.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 149 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 98 | 82.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,417 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,782 | 100.0 | English only | 3,892 | 88.1 | |
| Never married | 689 | 18.2 | Language other than English | 525 | 11.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,269 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 160 | 3.6 | |
| Separated | 51 | 1.3 | Spanish | 516 | 11.7 | |
| Widowed | 470 | 12.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 157 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 391 | 10.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Divorced | 303 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 153 | 4.0 | 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 | 4,724 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 72 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,710 | 78.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 43 | 59.7 | Arab | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,537 | 100.0 | Dutch | 117 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 420 | 11.9 | English | 526 | 11.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 72 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 254 | 5.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,079 | 100.0 | Greek | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 82 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,367 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 471 | 10.0 | |
| With a disability | 596 | 25.2 | Italian | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 56.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,771 | 74.8 | Norwegian | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 82.0 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 918 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 456 | 49.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 70 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 50 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,417 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,646 | 59.9 | Swedish | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,758 | 39.8 | Swiss | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,020 | 23.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 738 | 16.7 | United States or American | 721 | 15.3 | |
| Same state | 505 | 11.4 | Welsh | 21 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 233 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 13 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 1,307 | 27.7 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

