
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hopkins 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 | 31,960 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,986 | 100.0 | Native | 30,172 | 94.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 534 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 30,013 | 93.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 436 | 5.5 | State of residence | 24,292 | 76.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,020 | 50.3 | Different state | 5,721 | 17.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,996 | 25.0 | Born outside United States | 159 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,000 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 1,788 | 5.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 778 | 2.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 525 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,003 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,263 | 4.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,118 | 10.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,425 | 16.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,497 | 35.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,788 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,177 | 19.9 | Europe | 210 | 11.7 | |
| Associate degree | 625 | 3.0 | Asia | 76 | 4.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,120 | 10.1 | Africa | 18 | 1.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,041 | 5.0 | Oceania | 10 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 1,457 | 81.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.6 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 1.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 29,908 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,079 | 100.0 | English only | 26,964 | 90.2 | |
| Never married | 4,343 | 17.3 | Language other than English | 2,944 | 9.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,635 | 62.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,370 | 4.6 | |
| Separated | 501 | 2.0 | Spanish | 2,608 | 8.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,867 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,272 | 4.3 | |
| Female | 1,608 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 200 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 2,733 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 44 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,439 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 111 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 54 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 31,960 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 689 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 25,108 | 78.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 479 | 69.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 55 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,577 | 100.0 | Dutch | 751 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,102 | 13.2 | English | 2,587 | 8.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 531 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 57 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,927 | 6.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,596 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 572 | 7.5 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,318 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,003 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,880 | 22.4 | Italian | 214 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 57.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 13,438 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 172 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.5 | (X) | Polish | 135 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,555 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,155 | 47.3 | Russian | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 479 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 319 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 22 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 29,908 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,656 | 52.3 | Swedish | 130 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,793 | 46.1 | Swiss | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 8,039 | 26.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,754 | 19.2 | United States or American | 6,082 | 19.0 | |
| Same state | 4,336 | 14.5 | Welsh | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,418 | 4.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 459 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 8,403 | 26.3 | |
| 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)

