DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: St. Helena 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 | 10,525 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,993 | 100.0 | Native | 10,498 | 99.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 170 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 10,483 | 99.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 156 | 5.2 | State of residence | 9,246 | 87.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,505 | 50.3 | Different state | 1,237 | 11.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 709 | 23.7 | Born outside United States | 15 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 453 | 15.1 | Foreign born | 27 | 0.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 12 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,489 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 738 | 11.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,372 | 21.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,565 | 39.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 27 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 957 | 14.7 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 130 | 2.0 | Asia | 3 | 11.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 413 | 6.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 314 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 22 | 81.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 7.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,762 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,011 | 100.0 | English only | 9,543 | 97.8 | |
| Never married | 2,223 | 27.7 | Language other than English | 219 | 2.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,060 | 50.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Separated | 297 | 3.7 | Spanish | 129 | 1.3 | |
| Widowed | 863 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 670 | 8.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 82 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 568 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 305 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,525 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 463 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,221 | 78.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 332 | 71.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,471 | 100.0 | Dutch | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 833 | 11.1 | English | 584 | 5.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 359 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 58 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 240 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,766 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 188 | 6.8 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,676 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 549 | 5.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,713 | 30.2 | Italian | 108 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 47.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,963 | 69.8 | Norwegian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 64.5 | (X) | Polish | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,247 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 649 | 52.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 198 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 41 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,762 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 64 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,229 | 74.1 | Swedish | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,505 | 25.7 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,184 | 12.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,321 | 13.5 | United States or American | 582 | 5.5 | |
| Same state | 1,080 | 11.1 | Welsh | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 241 | 2.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 28 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 5,356 | 50.9 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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