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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Union County, Arkansas

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

11,194

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

661

5.9

Kindergarten

643

5.7

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

5,582

49.9

High school (grades 9-12)

2,881

25.7

College or graduate school

1,427

12.7

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

29,986

100.0

Less than 9th grade

2,544

8.5

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

5,099

17.0

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

10,648

35.5

Some college, no degree

5,976

19.9

Associate degree

1,252

4.2

Bachelor's degree

3,191

10.6

Graduate or professional degree

1,276

4.3

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

74.5

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

14.9

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

36,034

100.0

Never married

7,897

21.9

Now married, except separated

19,736

54.8

Separated

971

2.7

Widowed

3,322

9.2

Female

2,828

7.8

Divorced

4,108

11.4

Female

2,272

6.3

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

1,217

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

640

52.6

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

33,789

100.0

Civilian veterans

4,305

12.7

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

10,830

100.0

With a disability

1,035

9.6

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

24,362

100.0

With a disability

5,935

24.4

Percent employed

46.4

(X)

No disability

18,427

75.6

Percent employed

75.5

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

6,749

100.0

With a disability

3,609

53.5

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

42,828

100.0

Same house in 1995

25,940

60.6

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

16,398

38.3

Same county

11,258

26.3

Different county

5,140

12.0

Same state

2,426

5.7

Different state

2,714

6.3

Elsewhere in 1995

490

1.1

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

45,629

100.0

Native

45,094

98.8

Born in United States

44,895

98.4

State of residence

34,135

74.8

Different state

10,760

23.6

Born outside United States

199

0.4

Foreign born

535

1.2

Entered 1990 to March 2000

265

0.6

Naturalized citizen

161

0.4

Not a citizen

374

0.8

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

535

100.0

Europe

118

22.1

Asia

156

29.2

Africa

17

3.2

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

231

43.2

Northern America

13

2.4

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

42,828

100.0

English only

41,754

97.5

Language other than English

1,074

2.5

Speak English less than 'very well

414

1.0

Spanish

702

1.6

Speak English less than "very well"

244

0.6

Other Indo-European languages

234

0.5

Speak English less than "very well"

73

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

113

0.3

Speak English less than "very well"

94

0.2

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

45,629

100.0

Total ancestries reported

34,946

76.6

Arab

43

0.1

Czech1

34

0.1

Danish

58

0.1

Dutch

395

0.9

English

2,968

6.5

French (except Basque)1

737

1.6

French Canadian1

125

0.3

German

1,943

4.3

Greek

18

0.0

Hungarian

11

0.0

Irish1

3,712

8.1

Italian

296

0.6

Lithuanian

6

0.0

Norwegian

92

0.2

Polish

92

0.2

Portuguese

2

0.0

Russian

2

0.0

Scotch-Irish

887

1.9

Scottish

421

0.9

Slovak

1

0.0

Subsaharan African

362

0.8

Swedish

130

0.3

Swiss

57

0.1

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

6,575

14.4

Welsh

107

0.2

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

2

0.0

Other ancestries

15,870

34.8

(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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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