
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Panola 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 | 34,274 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,472 | 100.0 | Native | 34,052 | 99.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 559 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 33,927 | 99.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 636 | 6.7 | State of residence | 27,472 | 80.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,745 | 50.1 | Different state | 6,455 | 18.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,462 | 26.0 | Born outside United States | 125 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,070 | 11.3 | Foreign born | 222 | 0.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 136 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 134 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,668 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 88 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,826 | 13.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,724 | 22.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,102 | 29.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 218 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,646 | 17.6 | Europe | 40 | 18.3 | |
| Associate degree | 1,137 | 5.5 | Asia | 104 | 47.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,625 | 7.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 608 | 2.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 63 | 28.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.5 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 5.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 31,689 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,972 | 100.0 | English only | 30,879 | 97.4 | |
| Never married | 7,451 | 28.7 | Language other than English | 810 | 2.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,897 | 49.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 275 | 0.9 | |
| Separated | 856 | 3.3 | Spanish | 486 | 1.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,341 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 208 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 1,973 | 7.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 189 | 0.6 | |
| Divorced | 2,427 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,337 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 83 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,274 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,170 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,519 | 80.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 605 | 51.7 | Arab | 45 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 13 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,134 | 100.0 | Dutch | 229 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,289 | 9.5 | English | 1,490 | 4.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 337 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 51 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 890 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 9,145 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 857 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,122 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,957 | 5.7 | |
| With a disability | 5,805 | 32.0 | Italian | 218 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 52.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,317 | 68.0 | Norwegian | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 69.5 | (X) | Polish | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,053 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,134 | 52.7 | Russian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 328 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 175 | 0.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 31,689 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 193 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 20,865 | 65.8 | Swedish | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,767 | 34.0 | Swiss | 38 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,124 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,643 | 14.7 | United States or American | 5,263 | 15.4 | |
| Same state | 2,770 | 8.7 | Welsh | 49 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,873 | 5.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 57 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 16,040 | 46.8 | |
| 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)

