If you're into numbers, then you're in luck. The U.S. Census Bureau has some facts about Leflore County.
Oh, by the way, welcome.
Let's take a look at people. Leflore County's estimated population is 36,146. The census estimates that from April 2000 until July 2004, the county lost about 4 percent of its population. The census recorded 37,947 Leflore countians in 2000.
Now, let's break it down.
If you're under 5 years old, you're in the minority. Only 7.8 percent of the county's population consists of toddlers.
People under 18 years old make up 29.7 percent of the county's population and folks 65 and older are 11.9 percent.
The sexes are almost equally divided with women edging out the men at 52 percent.
African Americans at 67.7 percent make up the ethnic majority in Leflore County. White persons come in next at 30 percent of the population. Hispanics are represented at 1.9 percent.
Interestingly, 1.1 percent of the county's population consists of foreign-born people, and 3 percent of our residents speak a language other than English at home.
Most of us, 61.9 percent, have high school diplomas, and 15.9 percent of us have earned bachelor's degrees or higher.
It takes most of us in the county 18 minutes to drive to work.
Our median, or the midpoint, of earnings per household is $21,553.
And many of us in the county spend our money on houses. The median, or midpoint, in the value of owner-occupied housing in Leflore County is $56,800, according to the 2000 census. More than half of us, 53.4 percent, own our homes.
Other ancestries:
Arab: 0.1%
Dutch: 0.3%
English: 2.8%
French (except Basque): 0.5%
French: 0.1%
German: 1.6%
Irish: 3.4%
Italian: 0.9%
Scotch-Irish: 1.1%
Scottish: 0.5%
Subsaharan African: 1%
Swedish: 0.1%
Ukranian: 0.1%
United States or American: 5.4%
Welsh: 0.1%
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0.1%
Other ancestries: 59.4%
