DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lowndes 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 | 92,115 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 30,067 | 100.0 | Native | 89,654 | 97.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,156 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 88,067 | 95.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,315 | 4.4 | State of residence | 55,868 | 60.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 11,543 | 38.4 | Different state | 32,199 | 35.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,587 | 18.6 | Born outside United States | 1,587 | 1.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 9,466 | 31.5 | Foreign born | 2,461 | 2.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,017 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,069 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 54,237 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,392 | 1.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,564 | 6.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,555 | 15.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 16,587 | 30.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,461 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 11,642 | 21.5 | Europe | 467 | 19.0 | |
| Associate degree | 3,224 | 5.9 | Asia | 579 | 23.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,768 | 12.5 | Africa | 61 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,897 | 7.2 | Oceania | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 1,278 | 51.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.7 | (X) | Northern America | 72 | 2.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 85,728 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 71,788 | 100.0 | English only | 81,522 | 95.1 | |
| Never married | 21,482 | 29.9 | Language other than English | 4,206 | 4.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 36,775 | 51.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,497 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 1,931 | 2.7 | Spanish | 2,702 | 3.2 | |
| Widowed | 4,361 | 6.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,026 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 3,522 | 4.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 881 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 7,239 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 172 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 4,143 | 5.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 592 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 299 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 92,115 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,178 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 80,223 | 87.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,054 | 48.4 | Arab | 173 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 123 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 124 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 65,225 | 100.0 | Dutch | 841 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 11,883 | 18.2 | English | 7,413 | 8.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,505 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 284 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,643 | 7.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 22,761 | 100.0 | Greek | 230 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,820 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 146 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 47,497 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,581 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 10,043 | 21.1 | Italian | 1,763 | 1.9 | |
| Percent employed | 55.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 37,454 | 78.9 | Norwegian | 335 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 76.3 | (X) | Polish | 865 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 7,966 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 91 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,996 | 50.2 | Russian | 157 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,874 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,533 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 47 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 85,728 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,012 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 39,155 | 45.7 | Swedish | 402 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 44,299 | 51.7 | Swiss | 88 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 21,513 | 25.1 | Ukrainian | 110 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 22,786 | 26.6 | United States or American | 10,628 | 11.5 | |
| Same state | 9,056 | 10.6 | Welsh | 299 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 13,730 | 16.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 232 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,274 | 2.7 | Other ancestries | 36,709 | 39.9 | |
| 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)
