
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Iberville 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 | 33,320 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,553 | 100.0 | Native | 33,092 | 99.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 635 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 33,038 | 99.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 367 | 4.3 | State of residence | 30,672 | 92.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,135 | 48.3 | Different state | 2,366 | 7.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,292 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 54 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,124 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 228 | 0.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 77 | 0.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 129 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,101 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,797 | 13.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,449 | 21.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 8,198 | 38.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 228 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,299 | 15.6 | Europe | 63 | 27.6 | |
| Associate degree | 340 | 1.6 | Asia | 32 | 14.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,438 | 6.8 | Africa | 5 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 580 | 2.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 115 | 50.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.7 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 5.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,127 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,185 | 100.0 | English only | 29,690 | 95.4 | |
| Never married | 9,209 | 35.2 | Language other than English | 1,437 | 4.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,811 | 45.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 390 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 625 | 2.4 | Spanish | 301 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,972 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 97 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,616 | 6.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,097 | 3.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,568 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 281 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,443 | 5.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,320 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,350 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 29,143 | 87.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 772 | 57.2 | Arab | 85 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 33 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,579 | 100.0 | Dutch | 29 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,356 | 9.6 | English | 791 | 2.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 5,038 | 15.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,122 | 3.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,302 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,997 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 792 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,273 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,243 | 3.7 | |
| With a disability | 4,001 | 24.6 | Italian | 1,359 | 4.1 | |
| Percent employed | 42.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,272 | 75.4 | Norwegian | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 70.4 | (X) | Polish | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,506 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 8 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,818 | 51.9 | Russian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 96 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 60 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,127 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 20,649 | 66.3 | Swedish | 57 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,390 | 33.4 | Swiss | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,344 | 17.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,046 | 16.2 | United States or American | 2,489 | 7.5 | |
| Same state | 4,409 | 14.2 | Welsh | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 637 | 2.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 88 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 15,140 | 45.4 | |
| 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)

