
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Issaquena County
[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 | 2,274 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 658 | 100.0 | Native | 2,270 | 99.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 35 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 2,270 | 99.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 7.1 | State of residence | 1,961 | 86.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 332 | 50.5 | Different state | 309 | 13.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 181 | 27.5 | Born outside United States | 0 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 63 | 9.6 | Foreign born | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2 | 0.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,380 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 250 | 18.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 319 | 23.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 430 | 31.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 214 | 15.5 | Europe | 4 | 100.0 | |
| Associate degree | 69 | 5.0 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 72 | 5.2 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 26 | 1.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 58.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,139 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,761 | 100.0 | English only | 2,123 | 99.3 | |
| Never married | 525 | 29.8 | Language other than English | 16 | 0.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 937 | 53.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Separated | 70 | 4.0 | Spanish | 11 | 0.5 | |
| Widowed | 128 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 96 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 101 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 47 | 2.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,274 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 62 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,493 | 65.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 42 | 67.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,646 | 100.0 | Dutch | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 132 | 8.0 | English | 67 | 2.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 16 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 35 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 591 | 100.0 | Greek | 2 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 50 | 8.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,042 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 77 | 3.4 | |
| With a disability | 256 | 24.6 | Italian | 17 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 38.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 786 | 75.4 | Norwegian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 67.9 | (X) | Polish | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 244 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 118 | 48.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 23 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 21 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,139 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,305 | 61.0 | Swedish | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 830 | 38.8 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 247 | 11.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 583 | 27.3 | United States or American | 79 | 3.5 | |
| Same state | 500 | 23.4 | Welsh | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 83 | 3.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 1,141 | 50.2 | |
| 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)

