Arcadia, LA

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2202655, place: Arcadia town, Louisiana)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 827 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 63 (7.62%)
Kindergarten: 44 (5.32%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 411 (49.7%)
High school (grades 9-12): 203 (24.55%)
College or graduate school: 106 (12.82%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,906 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 179 (9.39%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 310 (16.26%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 784 (41.13%)
Some college, no degree: 327 (17.16%)
Associate degree: 41 (2.15%)
Bachelor's degree: 135 (7.08%)
Graduate or professional degree: 130 (6.82%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 74.3%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 13.9%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 2,361 (100%)
Never married: 721 (30.54%)
Now married, except separated: 1,041 (44.09%)
Separated: 86 (3.64%)
Total Widowed: 270 (11.44%)
Widowed Female: 233 (9.87%)
Total Divorced: 243 (10.29%)
Divorced Female: 152 (6.44%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 102 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 75 (73.53%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 2,200 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 244 (11.09%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 781 (100%)
--With a disability: 66 (8.45%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,339 (100%)
--With a disability: 366 (27.33%)
----Percent employed: 47%
--No disability: 973 (72.67%)
----Percent employed: 66.7%
Population 65 years and over: 431 (100%)
--With a disability: 203 (47.1%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,835 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,644 (57.99%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,185 (41.8%)
--Same county: 739 (26.07%)
--Different county: 446 (15.73%)
----Same state: 367 (12.95%)
----Different state: 79 (2.79%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 6 (0.21%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 3,033 (100%)
Native: 3,022 (99.64%)
--Born in United States: 3,015 (100%)
----State of residence: 2,683 (88.46%)
----Different state: 332 (10.95%)
--Born outside United States: 7 (0.23%)
Foreign born: 11 (0.36%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 7 (0.23%)
--Naturalized citizen: 6 (0.2%)
--Not a citizen: 5 (0.16%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 11 (100%)
Europe: 2 (18.18%)
Asia: 6 (54.55%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 3 (27.27%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,835 (100%)
English only: 2,771 (97.74%)
Language other than English: 64 (2.26%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 24 (0.85%)
--Spanish: 34 (1.2%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 16 (0.56%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 24 (0.85%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 8 (0.28%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 6 (0.21%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 3,033 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,464% (81.24%)
Arab: 1 (0.03%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 15 (0.49%)
English: 157 (5.18%)
French (except Basque): 48 (1.58%)
French Canadian: 11 (0.36%)
German: 53 (1.75%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 134 (4.42%)
Italian: 1 (0.03%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 8 (0.26%)
Polish: 0 (0%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 38 (1.25%)
Scottish: 21 (0.69%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 13 (0.43%)
Swedish: 1 (0.03%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 239 (7.88%)
Welsh: 4 (0.13%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 1,720 (56.71%)

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