DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Choctaw 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 | 15,922 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,792 | 100.0 | Native | 15,834 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 212 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 15,787 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 193 | 5.1 | State of residence | 9,668 | 60.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,890 | 49.8 | Different state | 6,119 | 38.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,073 | 28.3 | Born outside United States | 47 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 424 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 88 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 45 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 28 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,569 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,648 | 15.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,056 | 19.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,670 | 34.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 88 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,706 | 16.1 | Europe | 20 | 22.7 | |
| Associate degree | 476 | 4.5 | Asia | 24 | 27.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 683 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 330 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 42 | 47.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.0 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,849 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,593 | 100.0 | English only | 14,537 | 97.9 | |
| Never married | 2,696 | 21.4 | Language other than English | 312 | 2.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,164 | 56.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 152 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 334 | 2.7 | Spanish | 199 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 1,398 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 94 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,120 | 8.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 92 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,001 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 51 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 513 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,922 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 459 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,720 | 67.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 300 | 65.4 | Arab | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,770 | 100.0 | Dutch | 73 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,211 | 10.3 | English | 591 | 3.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 81 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 317 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,594 | 100.0 | Greek | 15 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 365 | 10.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,874 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 620 | 3.9 | |
| With a disability | 2,560 | 28.8 | Italian | 52 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 37.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,314 | 71.2 | Norwegian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 65.1 | (X) | Polish | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,224 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,361 | 61.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 213 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 129 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,849 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 295 | 1.9 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 10,344 | 69.7 | Swedish | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,420 | 29.8 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,047 | 20.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,373 | 9.2 | United States or American | 2,414 | 15.2 | |
| Same state | 719 | 4.8 | Welsh | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 654 | 4.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 85 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 5,814 | 36.5 | |
| 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
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