Belmont, MS

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General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2805100, place: Belmont town, Mississippi)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 398 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 16 (4.02%)
Kindergarten: 26 (6.53%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 224 (56.28%)
High school (grades 9-12): 100 (25.13%)
College or graduate school: 32 (8.04%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,274 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 164 (12.87%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 302 (23.7%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 389 (30.53%)
Some college, no degree: 225 (17.66%)
Associate degree: 94 (7.38%)
Bachelor's degree: 46 (3.61%)
Graduate or professional degree: 54 (4.24%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 63.4%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 7.8%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,532 (100%)
Never married: 271 (17.69%)
Now married, except separated: 899 (58.68%)
Separated: 24 (1.57%)
Total Widowed: 163 (10.64%)
Widowed Female: 137 (8.94%)
Total Divorced: 175 (11.42%)
Divorced Female: 106 (6.92%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 37 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 14 (37.84%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,442 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 167 (11.58%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 413 (100%)
--With a disability: 28 (6.78%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,091 (100%)
--With a disability: 229 (20.99%)
----Percent employed: 45.4%
--No disability: 862 (79.01%)
----Percent employed: 79.2%
Population 65 years and over: 293 (100%)
--With a disability: 142 (48.46%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,797 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 917 (51.03%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 797 (44.35%)
--Same county: 508 (28.27%)
--Different county: 289 (16.08%)
----Same state: 98 (5.45%)
----Different state: 191 (10.63%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 83 (4.62%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,942 (100%)
Native: 1,833 (94.39%)
--Born in United States: 1,827 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,137 (58.55%)
----Different state: 690 (35.53%)
--Born outside United States: 6 (0.31%)
Foreign born: 109 (5.61%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 93 (4.79%)
--Naturalized citizen: 12 (0.62%)
--Not a citizen: 97 (4.99%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 109 (100%)
Europe: 0 (0%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 109 (100%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,797 (100%)
English only: 1,662 (92.49%)
Language other than English: 135 (7.51%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 62 (3.45%)
--Spanish: 131 (7.29%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 61 (3.39%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 2 (0.11%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 1 (0.06%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,942 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,241% (63.9%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 0 (0%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 24 (1.24%)
English: 132 (6.8%)
French (except Basque): 31 (1.6%)
French Canadian: 2 (0.1%)
German: 86 (4.43%)
Greek: 2 (0.1%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 144 (7.42%)
Italian: 15 (0.77%)
Lithuanian: 2 (0.1%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 2 (0.1%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 11 (0.57%)
Scotch-Irish: 22 (1.13%)
Scottish: 14 (0.72%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 3 (0.15%)
Swedish: 2 (0.1%)
Swiss: 3 (0.15%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 469 (24.15%)
Welsh: 2 (0.1%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 275 (14.16%)

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