DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pontotoc 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 | 26,726 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,412 | 100.0 | Native | 26,423 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 358 | 5.6 | Born in United States | 26,376 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 446 | 7.0 | State of residence | 21,542 | 80.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,434 | 53.6 | Different state | 4,834 | 18.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,387 | 21.6 | Born outside United States | 47 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 787 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 303 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 195 | 0.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 68 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 17,082 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 235 | 0.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,834 | 10.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,857 | 22.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,775 | 33.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 303 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,848 | 16.7 | Europe | 55 | 18.2 | |
| Associate degree | 818 | 4.8 | Asia | 36 | 11.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,410 | 8.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 540 | 3.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 183 | 60.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.7 | (X) | Northern America | 29 | 9.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 11.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 24,760 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,512 | 100.0 | English only | 23,991 | 96.9 | |
| Never married | 3,720 | 18.1 | Language other than English | 769 | 3.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,613 | 61.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 301 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 475 | 2.3 | Spanish | 441 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,580 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 225 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 1,347 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 309 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,124 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 72 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 1,112 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 26,726 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 754 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 20,990 | 78.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 469 | 62.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,372 | 100.0 | Dutch | 138 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,276 | 11.7 | English | 1,562 | 5.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 340 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 10 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,039 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,504 | 100.0 | Greek | 17 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 609 | 9.4 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,839 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,175 | 8.1 | |
| With a disability | 3,039 | 20.5 | Italian | 241 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 48.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,800 | 79.5 | Norwegian | 13 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 80.4 | (X) | Polish | 62 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,217 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,646 | 51.2 | Russian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 258 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 232 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 24,760 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 140 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 15,080 | 60.9 | Swedish | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,477 | 38.3 | Swiss | 22 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,226 | 21.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,251 | 17.2 | United States or American | 9,385 | 35.1 | |
| Same state | 2,950 | 11.9 | Welsh | 56 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 1,301 | 5.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 203 | 0.8 | Other ancestries | 5,187 | 19.4 | |
| 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
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