DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Vermilion 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 | 53,807 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,156 | 100.0 | Native | 52,726 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 832 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 52,605 | 97.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 925 | 6.5 | State of residence | 48,682 | 90.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,087 | 50.1 | Different state | 3,923 | 7.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,645 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 121 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,667 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 1,081 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 579 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 423 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 33,616 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 658 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,346 | 15.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 6,206 | 18.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 12,770 | 38.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,081 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,740 | 14.1 | Europe | 85 | 7.9 | |
| Associate degree | 945 | 2.8 | Asia | 752 | 69.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,566 | 7.6 | Africa | 9 | 0.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,043 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 225 | 20.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.6 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 0.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 49,948 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 41,414 | 100.0 | English only | 36,012 | 72.1 | |
| Never married | 9,705 | 23.4 | Language other than English | 13,936 | 27.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 23,720 | 57.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,856 | 7.7 | |
| Separated | 782 | 1.9 | Spanish | 510 | 1.0 | |
| Widowed | 3,221 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 186 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,741 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 12,532 | 25.1 | |
| Divorced | 3,986 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,991 | 6.0 | |
| Female | 2,147 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 873 | 1.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 671 | 1.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 53,807 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,142 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 45,836 | 85.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 560 | 49.0 | Arab | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 11 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 11 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 38,617 | 100.0 | Dutch | 91 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,165 | 10.8 | English | 1,093 | 2.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,698 | 18.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 9,315 | 17.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,040 | 3.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,712 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,496 | 10.9 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 28,691 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,188 | 2.2 | |
| With a disability | 7,060 | 24.6 | Italian | 1,065 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 50.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 21,631 | 75.4 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 70.3 | (X) | Polish | 60 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,765 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,414 | 50.5 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 193 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 114 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 49,948 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 117 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 32,167 | 64.4 | Swedish | 22 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,305 | 34.6 | Swiss | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 11,454 | 22.9 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,851 | 11.7 | United States or American | 9,939 | 18.5 | |
| Same state | 4,285 | 8.6 | Welsh | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 1,566 | 3.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 476 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 10,744 | 20.0 | |
| 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)
