
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Panola 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 | 22,756 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,765 | 100.0 | Native | 22,100 | 97.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 267 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 22,068 | 97.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 317 | 5.5 | State of residence | 16,080 | 70.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,798 | 48.5 | Different state | 5,988 | 26.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,552 | 26.9 | Born outside United States | 32 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 831 | 14.4 | Foreign born | 656 | 2.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 338 | 1.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 178 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,848 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 478 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,181 | 8.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,404 | 16.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,166 | 34.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 656 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,330 | 22.4 | Europe | 66 | 10.1 | |
| Associate degree | 773 | 5.2 | Asia | 74 | 11.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,304 | 8.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 690 | 4.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 499 | 76.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.9 | (X) | Northern America | 17 | 2.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 21,476 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,068 | 100.0 | English only | 20,484 | 95.4 | |
| Never married | 3,030 | 16.8 | Language other than English | 992 | 4.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,241 | 62.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 435 | 2.0 | |
| Separated | 385 | 2.1 | Spanish | 802 | 3.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,775 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 344 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 1,488 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 146 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,637 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 888 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 44 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,756 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 567 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,408 | 80.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 321 | 56.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 86 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,972 | 100.0 | Dutch | 271 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,229 | 13.1 | English | 1,595 | 7.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 670 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 145 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,673 | 7.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,596 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 469 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,158 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,977 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,716 | 22.3 | Italian | 246 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 50.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 35 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 9,442 | 77.7 | Norwegian | 45 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 71.2 | (X) | Polish | 184 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,437 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,685 | 49.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 362 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 252 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 21,476 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,513 | 62.9 | Swedish | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,829 | 36.5 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,338 | 20.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,491 | 16.3 | United States or American | 4,560 | 20.0 | |
| Same state | 2,244 | 10.4 | Welsh | 57 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,247 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 134 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 6,098 | 26.8 | |
| 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)

