
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Red River 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 | 9,622 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,747 | 100.0 | Native | 9,579 | 99.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 205 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 9,550 | 99.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 155 | 5.6 | State of residence | 8,614 | 89.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,395 | 50.8 | Different state | 936 | 9.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 707 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 29 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 285 | 10.4 | Foreign born | 43 | 0.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 25 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 27 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,792 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 630 | 10.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,260 | 21.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,420 | 41.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 43 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 805 | 13.9 | Europe | 14 | 32.6 | |
| Associate degree | 171 | 3.0 | Asia | 1 | 2.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 362 | 6.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 144 | 2.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 28 | 65.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,879 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,297 | 100.0 | English only | 8,731 | 98.3 | |
| Never married | 1,923 | 26.4 | Language other than English | 148 | 1.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,816 | 52.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.6 | |
| Separated | 203 | 2.8 | Spanish | 90 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 636 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 525 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 49 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 719 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 352 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,622 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 316 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,765 | 70.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 222 | 70.3 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,718 | 100.0 | Dutch | 44 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 711 | 10.6 | English | 247 | 2.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 276 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 13 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 281 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,502 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 146 | 5.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,808 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 615 | 6.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,089 | 22.6 | Italian | 63 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 35.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,719 | 77.4 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 66.3 | (X) | Polish | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,281 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 657 | 51.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 100 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 62 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,879 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 26 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,896 | 66.4 | Swedish | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,963 | 33.4 | Swiss | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,917 | 21.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,046 | 11.8 | United States or American | 1,086 | 11.3 | |
| Same state | 705 | 7.9 | Welsh | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 341 | 3.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 20 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 3,915 | 40.7 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

