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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lauderdale 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 87,966 100.0
      enrolled in school 22,201 100.0   Native 87,077 99.0
Nursery school, preschool 1,438 6.5       Born in United States 86,800 98.7
Kindergarten 1,073 4.8           State of residence 65,267 74.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 9,605 43.3           Different state 21,533 24.5
High school (grades 9-12) 4,467 20.1       Born outside United States 277 0.3
College or graduate school 5,618 25.3   Foreign born 889 1.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 488 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 356 0.4
  Population 25 years and over 58,894 100.0       Not a citizen 533 0.6
Less than 9th grade 5,058 8.6        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 8,857 15.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 20,105 34.1     Total (excluding born at sea) 889 100.0
Some college, no degree 11,465 19.5   Europe 168 18.9
Associate degree 2,528 4.3   Asia 294 33.1
Bachelor's degree 7,018 11.9   Africa 25 2.8
Graduate or professional degree 3,863 6.6   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 369 41.5
Percent high school graduate or higher 76.4 (X)   Northern America 33 3.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 18.5 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 82,805 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 71,247 100.0   English only 80,746 97.5
Never married 14,789 20.8   Language other than English 2,059 2.5
Now married, except separated 42,923 60.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 889 1.1
Separated 834 1.2   Spanish 1,113 1.3
Widowed 5,693 8.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 525 0.6
 Female 4,822 6.8   Other Indo-European languages 721 0.9
Divorced 7,008 9.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 286 0.3
 Female 3,837 5.4   Asian and Pacific Island languages 214 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 75 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 87,966 100.0
           under 18 years 1,182 100.0     Total ancestries reported 68,535 77.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 607 51.4   Arab 52 0.1
        Czech¹ 134 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 102 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 67,657 100.0   Dutch 682 0.8
Civilian veterans 8,648 12.8   English 7,725 8.8
        French (except Basque)¹ 1,274 1.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 230 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 5,522 6.3
     Population 5 to 20 years 18,983 100.0   Greek 59 0.1
With a disability 1,526 8.0   Hungarian 46 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 50,256 100.0   Irish¹ 7,701 8.8
With a disability 11,340 22.6   Italian 837 1.0
 Percent employed 50.8 (X)   Lithuanian 24 0.0
No disability 38,916 77.4   Norwegian 179 0.2
 Percent employed 74.1 (X)   Polish 435 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 12,598 100.0   Portuguese 17 0.0
With a disability 5,797 46.0   Russian 77 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 2,342 2.7
        Scottish 1,259 1.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 16 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 82,805 100.0   Subsaharan African 193 0.2
Same house in 1995 49,653 60.0   Swedish 120 0.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 32,608 39.4   Swiss 86 0.1
 Same county 20,586 24.9   Ukrainian 20 0.0
 Different county 12,022 14.5   United States or American 22,673 25.8
  Same state 6,360 7.7   Welsh 231 0.3
  Different state 5,662 6.8   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 41 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 544 0.7   Other ancestries 16,458 18.7
 
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.
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