Mount Vernon, AL

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:0152608, place: Mount Vernon town, Alabama)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 185 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 17 (9.19%)
Kindergarten: 15 (8.11%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 99 (53.51%)
High school (grades 9-12): 41 (22.16%)
College or graduate school: 13 (7.03%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 509 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 42 (8.25%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 93 (18.27%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 241 (47.35%)
Some college, no degree: 89 (17.49%)
Associate degree: 18 (3.54%)
Bachelor's degree: 12 (2.36%)
Graduate or professional degree: 14 (2.75%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 73.5%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 5.1%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 629 (100%)
Never married: 165 (26.23%)
Now married, except separated: 349 (55.48%)
Separated: 6 (0.95%)
Total Widowed: 49 (7.79%)
Widowed Female: 45 (7.15%)
Total Divorced: 60 (9.54%)
Divorced Female: 34 (5.41%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 56 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 48 (85.71%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 586 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 78 (13.31%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 230 (100%)
--With a disability: 17 (7.39%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 429 (100%)
--With a disability: 130 (30.3%)
----Percent employed: 55.4%
--No disability: 299 (69.7%)
----Percent employed: 65.9%
Population 65 years and over: 114 (100%)
--With a disability: 56 (49.12%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 773 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 597 (77.23%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 176 (22.77%)
--Same county: 113 (14.62%)
--Different county: 63 (8.15%)
----Same state: 34 (4.4%)
----Different state: 29 (3.75%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 0 (0%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 829 (100%)
Native: 829 (100%)
--Born in United States: 825 (100%)
----State of residence: 746 (89.99%)
----Different state: 79 (9.53%)
--Born outside United States: 4 (0.48%)
Foreign born: 0 (0%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 0 (0%)
--Naturalized citizen: 0 (0%)
--Not a citizen: 0 (0%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 0
Europe: 0
Asia: 0
Africa: 0
Oceania: 0
Latin America: 0
Northern America: 0

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 773 (100%)
English only: 764 (98.84%)
Language other than English: 9 (1.16%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 5 (0.65%)
--Spanish: 6 (0.78%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 5 (0.65%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 2 (0.26%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 1 (0.13%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 829 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 709% (85.52%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 2 (0.24%)
English: 55 (6.63%)
French (except Basque): 8 (0.97%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 27 (3.26%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 37 (4.46%)
Italian: 0 (0%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 3 (0.36%)
Polish: 0 (0%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 6 (0.72%)
Scottish: 1 (0.12%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 12 (1.45%)
Swedish: 2 (0.24%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 191 (23.04%)
Welsh: 0 (0%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 365 (44.03%)

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