
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hopkins 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 | 46,519 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 10,750 | 100.0 | Native | 46,254 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 899 | 8.4 | Born in United States | 46,121 | 99.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 612 | 5.7 | State of residence | 37,061 | 79.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 5,367 | 49.9 | Different state | 9,060 | 19.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,439 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 133 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,433 | 13.3 | Foreign born | 265 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 113 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 137 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 31,464 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 128 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,040 | 12.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,981 | 15.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,056 | 38.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 265 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 5,733 | 18.2 | Europe | 48 | 18.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,322 | 4.2 | Asia | 107 | 40.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,840 | 5.8 | Africa | 17 | 6.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,492 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 41 | 15.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.3 | (X) | Northern America | 52 | 19.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 43,705 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 37,188 | 100.0 | English only | 42,480 | 97.2 | |
| Never married | 6,744 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 1,225 | 2.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 22,479 | 60.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 282 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 609 | 1.6 | Spanish | 612 | 1.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,198 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 130 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,847 | 7.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 435 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 4,158 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 89 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,355 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 139 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 52 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 46,519 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 753 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 33,492 | 72.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 368 | 48.9 | Arab | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 56 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 77 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 35,294 | 100.0 | Dutch | 582 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,522 | 12.8 | English | 4,011 | 8.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 709 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 118 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,433 | 7.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 10,130 | 100.0 | Greek | 81 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 986 | 9.7 | Hungarian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 26,564 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,933 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,728 | 25.3 | Italian | 412 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 45.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 19,836 | 74.7 | Norwegian | 122 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 72.8 | (X) | Polish | 243 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,300 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 23 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,236 | 51.4 | Russian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 586 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 569 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 43,705 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 70 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,072 | 61.9 | Swedish | 70 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 16,459 | 37.7 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 11,240 | 25.7 | Ukrainian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,219 | 11.9 | United States or American | 11,389 | 24.5 | |
| Same state | 2,754 | 6.3 | Welsh | 224 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,465 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 174 | 0.4 | Other ancestries | 6,689 | 14.4 | |
| 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)

