
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stone 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 | 11,499 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,284 | 100.0 | Native | 11,403 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 59 | 2.6 | Born in United States | 11,366 | 98.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 100 | 4.4 | State of residence | 7,366 | 64.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,293 | 56.6 | Different state | 4,000 | 34.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 569 | 24.9 | Born outside United States | 37 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 263 | 11.5 | Foreign born | 96 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 20 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 73 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,119 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,230 | 15.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,365 | 16.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,124 | 38.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 96 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,405 | 17.3 | Europe | 38 | 39.6 | |
| Associate degree | 203 | 2.5 | Asia | 13 | 13.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 491 | 6.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 301 | 3.7 | Oceania | 5 | 5.2 | |
| Latin America | 24 | 25.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.0 | (X) | Northern America | 16 | 16.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,857 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,363 | 100.0 | English only | 10,612 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 1,260 | 13.5 | Language other than English | 245 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,303 | 67.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.5 | |
| Separated | 187 | 2.0 | Spanish | 118 | 1.1 | |
| Widowed | 642 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 532 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 104 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 971 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 467 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 11,499 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 228 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,331 | 72.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 120 | 52.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 39 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,938 | 100.0 | Dutch | 171 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,476 | 16.5 | English | 1,076 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 244 | 2.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,149 | 10.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,338 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 220 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,317 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,214 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,769 | 28.0 | Italian | 77 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 34.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 4,548 | 72.0 | Norwegian | 71 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 71.3 | (X) | Polish | 103 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,056 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 7 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,140 | 55.4 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 232 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 206 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,857 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,785 | 62.5 | Swedish | 82 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,051 | 37.3 | Swiss | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 2,067 | 19.0 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 1,984 | 18.3 | United States or American | 1,965 | 17.1 | |
| Same state | 917 | 8.4 | Welsh | 61 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 1,067 | 9.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 21 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,547 | 13.5 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

