DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Crenshaw 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 | 13,665 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,118 | 100.0 | Native | 13,629 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 94 | 3.0 | Born in United States | 13,581 | 99.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 185 | 5.9 | State of residence | 12,112 | 88.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,621 | 52.0 | Different state | 1,469 | 10.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 793 | 25.4 | Born outside United States | 48 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 425 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 36 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 20 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,268 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,504 | 16.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,196 | 23.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,689 | 29.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 36 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,417 | 15.3 | Europe | 19 | 52.8 | |
| Associate degree | 423 | 4.6 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 670 | 7.2 | Africa | 11 | 30.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 369 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 5.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.1 | (X) | Northern America | 4 | 11.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,859 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 10,882 | 100.0 | English only | 12,629 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 2,306 | 21.2 | Language other than English | 230 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,983 | 55.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 53 | 0.4 | |
| Separated | 341 | 3.1 | Spanish | 154 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,249 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 34 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,076 | 9.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 76 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 1,003 | 9.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 560 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,665 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 291 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 9,532 | 69.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 124 | 42.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 10,272 | 100.0 | Dutch | 82 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,241 | 12.1 | English | 810 | 5.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 113 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 465 | 3.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,982 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 349 | 11.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,452 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 766 | 5.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,939 | 26.0 | Italian | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 45.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 5,513 | 74.0 | Norwegian | 39 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.5 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,246 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,323 | 58.9 | Russian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 217 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 105 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,859 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 86 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,407 | 65.4 | Swedish | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,411 | 34.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,486 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,925 | 15.0 | United States or American | 3,302 | 24.2 | |
| Same state | 1,382 | 10.7 | Welsh | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 543 | 4.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 41 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,418 | 25.0 | |
| 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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