DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: St. Charles 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 | 48,072 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,720 | 100.0 | Native | 46,880 | 97.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,120 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 46,569 | 96.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,005 | 6.8 | State of residence | 39,366 | 81.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,936 | 47.1 | Different state | 7,203 | 15.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,525 | 23.9 | Born outside United States | 311 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,134 | 14.5 | Foreign born | 1,192 | 2.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 485 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 608 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 29,551 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 584 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,071 | 7.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,848 | 13.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,662 | 36.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,192 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,418 | 21.7 | Europe | 204 | 17.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,379 | 4.7 | Asia | 267 | 22.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,663 | 12.4 | Africa | 59 | 4.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,510 | 5.1 | Oceania | 5 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 541 | 45.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.0 | (X) | Northern America | 116 | 9.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 44,565 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 36,142 | 100.0 | English only | 41,562 | 93.3 | |
| Never married | 9,239 | 25.6 | Language other than English | 3,003 | 6.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,722 | 57.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 943 | 2.1 | |
| Separated | 607 | 1.7 | Spanish | 1,265 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 2,085 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 330 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,628 | 4.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,524 | 3.4 | |
| Divorced | 3,489 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 509 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 1,967 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 154 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 48,072 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,244 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 48,227 | 100.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 546 | 43.9 | Arab | 114 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 51 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 58 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 33,478 | 100.0 | Dutch | 170 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,989 | 11.9 | English | 2,211 | 4.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 10,892 | 22.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,720 | 3.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,568 | 11.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 12,873 | 100.0 | Greek | 84 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 768 | 6.0 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 27,182 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,425 | 7.1 | |
| With a disability | 4,845 | 17.8 | Italian | 3,708 | 7.7 | |
| Percent employed | 59.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 10 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 22,337 | 82.2 | Norwegian | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 76.1 | (X) | Polish | 223 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,119 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 75 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,958 | 47.5 | Russian | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 368 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 372 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 19 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 44,565 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 521 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 29,655 | 66.5 | Swedish | 72 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,512 | 32.6 | Swiss | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,908 | 15.5 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,604 | 17.1 | United States or American | 3,597 | 7.5 | |
| Same state | 5,742 | 12.9 | Welsh | 124 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,862 | 4.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 398 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 14,675 | 30.5 | |
| 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)
