DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Barbour 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 | 29,038 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,889 | 100.0 | Native | 28,603 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 386 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 28,533 | 98.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 389 | 5.6 | State of residence | 21,707 | 74.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,571 | 51.8 | Different state | 6,826 | 23.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,800 | 26.1 | Born outside United States | 70 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 743 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 435 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 335 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 75 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 18,896 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 360 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,442 | 12.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,237 | 22.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,124 | 32.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 435 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,135 | 16.6 | Europe | 30 | 6.9 | |
| Associate degree | 890 | 4.7 | Asia | 34 | 7.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,362 | 7.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 706 | 3.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 366 | 84.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.7 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 27,238 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 23,002 | 100.0 | English only | 26,271 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 6,300 | 27.4 | Language other than English | 967 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,233 | 48.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 465 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 1,031 | 4.5 | Spanish | 669 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,135 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 358 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 1,806 | 7.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 207 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 2,303 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,039 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 29,038 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 690 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 23,489 | 80.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 389 | 56.4 | Arab | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 21 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 21,632 | 100.0 | Dutch | 138 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,778 | 12.8 | English | 1,193 | 4.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 425 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 35 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 898 | 3.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,536 | 100.0 | Greek | 18 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 711 | 10.9 | Hungarian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,192 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,285 | 4.4 | |
| With a disability | 3,965 | 27.9 | Italian | 201 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 49.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,227 | 72.1 | Norwegian | 51 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 70.8 | (X) | Polish | 82 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,748 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,974 | 52.7 | Russian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 378 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 207 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 27,238 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 451 | 1.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,485 | 60.5 | Swedish | 63 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,326 | 37.9 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 5,724 | 21.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,602 | 16.9 | United States or American | 4,196 | 14.5 | |
| Same state | 2,546 | 9.3 | Welsh | 84 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 2,056 | 7.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 427 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 13,702 | 47.2 | |
| 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)
