
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Catahoula Parish
[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 | 10,920 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,633 | 100.0 | Native | 10,911 | 99.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 147 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 10,874 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 174 | 6.6 | State of residence | 8,639 | 79.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,300 | 49.4 | Different state | 2,235 | 20.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 687 | 26.1 | Born outside United States | 37 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 325 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,904 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,072 | 15.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,594 | 23.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,533 | 36.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 935 | 13.5 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 121 | 1.8 | Asia | 3 | 33.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 401 | 5.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 248 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 6 | 66.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,219 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,662 | 100.0 | English only | 10,034 | 98.2 | |
| Never married | 2,271 | 26.2 | Language other than English | 185 | 1.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,883 | 56.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 59 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 158 | 1.8 | Spanish | 52 | 0.5 | |
| Widowed | 680 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 561 | 6.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 133 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 670 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 374 | 4.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| 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 | 10,920 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 296 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,314 | 67.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 236 | 79.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,098 | 100.0 | Dutch | 101 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 878 | 10.8 | English | 342 | 3.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 401 | 3.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 53 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 421 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,635 | 100.0 | Greek | 16 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 291 | 11.0 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,628 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 756 | 6.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,660 | 29.5 | Italian | 66 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 41.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,968 | 70.5 | Norwegian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 66.8 | (X) | Polish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,451 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 769 | 53.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 128 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 96 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,219 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,890 | 67.4 | Swedish | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,303 | 32.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,926 | 18.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,377 | 13.5 | United States or American | 1,633 | 15.0 | |
| Same state | 1,116 | 10.9 | Welsh | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 261 | 2.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 26 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 3,234 | 29.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

