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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: Smith County, Mississippi

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

4,070

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

222

5.5

Kindergarten

289

7.1

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

2,101

51.6

High school (grades 9-12)

1,014

24.9

College or graduate school

444

10.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

10,274

100.0

Less than 9th grade

1,036

10.1

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

1,964

19.1

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

3,939

38.3

Some college, no degree

1,869

18.2

Associate degree

527

5.1

Bachelor's degree

633

6.2

Graduate or professional degree

306

3.0

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

70.8

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

9.1

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

12,466

100.0

Never married

2,324

18.6

Now married, except separated

7,732

62.0

Separated

231

1.9

Widowed

1,128

9.0

Female

903

7.2

Divorced

1,051

8.4

Female

559

4.5

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

408

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

243

59.6

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

11,729

100.0

Civilian veterans

1,264

10.8

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

3,898

100.0

With a disability

430

11.0

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

8,846

100.0

With a disability

2,673

30.2

Percent employed

49.0

(X)

No disability

6,173

69.8

Percent employed

74.9

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

2,294

100.0

With a disability

1,468

64.0

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

15,060

100.0

Same house in 1995

10,434

69.3

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

4,494

29.8

Same county

2,578

17.1

Different county

1,916

12.7

Same state

1,456

9.7

Different state

460

3.1

Elsewhere in 1995

132

0.9

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

16,182

100.0

Native

16,105

99.5

Born in United States

16,013

99.0

State of residence

14,525

89.8

Different state

1,488

9.2

Born outside United States

92

0.6

Foreign born

77

0.5

Entered 1990 to March 2000

47

0.3

Naturalized citizen

19

0.1

Not a citizen

58

0.4

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

77

100.0

Europe

10

13.0

Asia

39

50.6

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

7

9.1

Latin America

21

27.3

Northern America

0

0.0

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

15,060

100.0

English only

14,753

98.0

Language other than English

307

2.0

Speak English less than 'very well

88

0.6

Spanish

208

1.4

Speak English less than "very well"

74

0.5

Other Indo-European languages

78

0.5

Speak English less than "very well"

8

0.1

Asian and Pacific Island languages

20

0.1

Speak English less than "very well"

5

0.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

16,182

100.0

Total ancestries reported

11,008

68.0

Arab

5

0.0

Czech1

24

0.1

Danish

0

0.0

Dutch

55

0.3

English

1,007

6.2

French (except Basque)1

172

1.1

French Canadian1

40

0.2

German

315

1.9

Greek

2

0.0

Hungarian

0

0.0

Irish1

1,424

8.8

Italian

56

0.3

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

12

0.1

Polish

51

0.3

Portuguese

0

0.0

Russian

6

0.0

Scotch-Irish

234

1.4

Scottish

149

0.9

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

61

0.4

Swedish

6

0.0

Swiss

0

0.0

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

3,930

24.3

Welsh

20

0.1

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

0

0.0

Other ancestries

3,439

21.3

(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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