DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wilcox 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 | 8,577 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,855 | 100.0 | Native | 8,505 | 99.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 136 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 8,487 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 120 | 6.5 | State of residence | 7,059 | 82.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 879 | 47.4 | Different state | 1,428 | 16.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 520 | 28.0 | Born outside United States | 18 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 200 | 10.8 | Foreign born | 72 | 0.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 36 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,761 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 57 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 826 | 14.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,008 | 17.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,516 | 43.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 72 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 792 | 13.7 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 218 | 3.8 | Asia | 13 | 18.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 203 | 3.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 198 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 59 | 81.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.2 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,048 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,965 | 100.0 | English only | 7,891 | 98.0 | |
| Never married | 1,398 | 20.1 | Language other than English | 157 | 2.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,203 | 60.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 59 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 171 | 2.5 | Spanish | 126 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 590 | 8.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 514 | 7.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 603 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 254 | 3.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,577 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 142 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,506 | 64.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 61 | 43.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,613 | 100.0 | Dutch | 29 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 859 | 13.0 | English | 421 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 18 | 0.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 112 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,765 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 158 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,849 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 320 | 3.7 | |
| With a disability | 974 | 25.3 | Italian | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 45.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,875 | 74.7 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 75.2 | (X) | Polish | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,012 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 551 | 54.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 104 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 70 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,048 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 4,954 | 61.6 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,083 | 38.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,031 | 12.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,052 | 25.5 | United States or American | 2,001 | 23.3 | |
| Same state | 1,503 | 18.7 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 549 | 6.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 11 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 2,379 | 27.7 | |
| 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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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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