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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jackson 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 46,755 100.0
      enrolled in school 11,144 100.0   Native 46,049 98.5
Nursery school, preschool 467 4.2       Born in United States 45,600 97.5
Kindergarten 604 5.4           State of residence 29,602 63.3
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 4,956 44.5           Different state 15,998 34.2
High school (grades 9-12) 3,002 26.9       Born outside United States 449 1.0
College or graduate school 2,115 19.0   Foreign born 706 1.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 146 0.3
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 419 0.9
  Population 25 years and over 31,771 100.0       Not a citizen 287 0.6
Less than 9th grade 3,554 11.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 6,253 19.7   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 10,383 32.7     Total (excluding born at sea) 706 100.0
Some college, no degree 5,896 18.6   Europe 155 22.0
Associate degree 1,611 5.1   Asia 146 20.7
Bachelor's degree 2,506 7.9   Africa 10 1.4
Graduate or professional degree 1,568 4.9   Oceania 14 2.0
        Latin America 322 45.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 69.1 (X)   Northern America 59 8.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 12.8 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 44,253 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 38,401 100.0   English only 42,316 95.6
Never married 8,825 23.0   Language other than English 1,937 4.4
Now married, except separated 21,038 54.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 614 1.4
Separated 834 2.2   Spanish 1,279 2.9
Widowed 3,457 9.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 430 1.0
 Female 2,829 7.4   Other Indo-European languages 389 0.9
Divorced 4,247 11.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 95 0.2
 Female 1,916 5.0   Asian and Pacific Island languages 111 0.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 41 0.1
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 46,755 100.0
           under 18 years 908 100.0     Total ancestries reported 31,430 67.2
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 548 60.4   Arab 0 0.0
        Czech¹ 39 0.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 50 0.1
          Civilian population 18 years and over 36,299 100.0   Dutch 377 0.8
Civilian veterans 5,581 15.4   English 3,005 6.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 554 1.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 116 0.2
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,291 4.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 9,589 100.0   Greek 70 0.1
With a disability 1,063 11.1   Hungarian 40 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 22,474 100.0   Irish¹ 2,907 6.2
With a disability 6,429 28.6   Italian 522 1.1
 Percent employed 53.2 (X)   Lithuanian 15 0.0
No disability 16,045 71.4   Norwegian 91 0.2
 Percent employed 74.4 (X)   Polish 257 0.5
     Population 65 years and over 6,481 100.0   Portuguese 11 0.0
With a disability 3,423 52.8   Russian 45 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 660 1.4
        Scottish 436 0.9
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 44,253 100.0   Subsaharan African 524 1.1
Same house in 1995 27,358 61.8   Swedish 115 0.2
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 16,475 37.2   Swiss 15 0.0
 Same county 7,771 17.6   Ukrainian 11 0.0
 Different county 8,704 19.7   United States or American 7,485 16.0
  Same state 5,489 12.4   Welsh 205 0.4
  Different state 3,215 7.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 73 0.2
Elsewhere in 1995 420 0.9   Other ancestries 11,516 24.6
 
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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