DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dooly County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 11,525 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,117 | 100.0 | Native | 11,351 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 220 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 11,339 | 98.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 208 | 6.7 | State of residence | 10,011 | 86.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,367 | 43.9 | Different state | 1,328 | 11.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 938 | 30.1 | Born outside United States | 12 | 0.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 384 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 174 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 129 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 35 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,309 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 139 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 838 | 11.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,467 | 20.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,765 | 37.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 174 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,213 | 16.6 | Europe | 8 | 4.6 | |
| Associate degree | 322 | 4.4 | Asia | 38 | 21.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 415 | 5.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 289 | 4.0 | Oceania | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 124 | 71.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,764 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,120 | 100.0 | English only | 10,254 | 95.3 | |
| Never married | 2,691 | 29.5 | Language other than English | 510 | 4.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,369 | 47.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 198 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 311 | 3.4 | Spanish | 379 | 3.5 | |
| Widowed | 749 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 128 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 631 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 70 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,000 | 11.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 430 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 61 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 56 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,525 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 347 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,900 | 77.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 203 | 58.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,568 | 100.0 | Dutch | 37 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 985 | 11.5 | English | 479 | 4.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 31 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 203 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,640 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 235 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,580 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 408 | 3.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,526 | 27.3 | Italian | 44 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 54.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,054 | 72.7 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,254 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 647 | 51.6 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 48 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 76 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,764 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 123 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,213 | 57.7 | Swedish | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,383 | 40.7 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,120 | 19.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,263 | 21.0 | United States or American | 1,631 | 14.2 | |
| Same state | 2,005 | 18.6 | Welsh | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 258 | 2.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 168 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 5,786 | 50.2 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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