Meridian Station, MS

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:2846680, place: Meridian Station CDP, Mississippi)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 532 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 61 (11.47%)
Kindergarten: 39 (7.33%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 274 (51.5%)
High school (grades 9-12): 53 (9.96%)
College or graduate school: 105 (19.74%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 732 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 0 (0%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 42 (5.74%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 133 (18.17%)
Some college, no degree: 298 (40.71%)
Associate degree: 51 (6.97%)
Bachelor's degree: 165 (22.54%)
Graduate or professional degree: 43 (5.87%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 94.3%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 28.4%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,320 (100%)
Never married: 525 (39.77%)
Now married, except separated: 727 (55.08%)
Separated: 41 (3.11%)
Total Widowed: 0 (0%)
Widowed Female: 0 (0%)
Total Divorced: 27 (2.05%)
Divorced Female: 15 (1.14%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 0

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 461 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 96 (20.82%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 402 (100%)
--With a disability: 13 (3.23%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 426 (100%)
--With a disability: 47 (11.03%)
----Percent employed: 66%
--No disability: 379 (88.97%)
----Percent employed: 50.1%
Population 65 years and over: 0
--With a disability: 0

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,649 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 140 (8.49%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,406 (85.26%)
--Same county: 39 (2.37%)
--Different county: 1,367 (82.9%)
----Same state: 114 (6.91%)
----Different state: 1,253 (75.99%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 103 (6.25%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,873 (100%)
Native: 1,788 (95.46%)
--Born in United States: 1,740 (100%)
----State of residence: 291 (15.54%)
----Different state: 1,449 (77.36%)
--Born outside United States: 48 (2.56%)
Foreign born: 85 (4.54%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 49 (2.62%)
--Naturalized citizen: 30 (1.6%)
--Not a citizen: 55 (2.94%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 85 (100%)
Europe: 11 (12.94%)
Asia: 13 (15.29%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 61 (71.76%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,649 (100%)
English only: 1,463 (88.72%)
Language other than English: 186 (11.28%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 52 (3.15%)
--Spanish: 108 (6.55%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 29 (1.76%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 65 (3.94%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 23 (1.39%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 13 (0.79%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,873 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,886% (100.69%)
Arab: 4 (0.21%)
Czech: 7 (0.37%)
Danish: 6 (0.32%)
Dutch: 7 (0.37%)
English: 94 (5.02%)
French (except Basque): 118 (6.3%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 263 (14.04%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 5 (0.27%)
Irish: 139 (7.42%)
Italian: 40 (2.14%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 34 (1.82%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 40 (2.14%)
Scottish: 31 (1.66%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 44 (2.35%)
Swedish: 15 (0.8%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 262 (13.99%)
Welsh: 0 (0%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 32 (1.71%)
Other ancestries: 745 (39.78%)

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