DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fannin 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 | 19,798 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,861 | 100.0 | Native | 19,588 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 259 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 19,502 | 98.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 175 | 4.5 | State of residence | 10,840 | 54.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,923 | 49.8 | Different state | 8,662 | 43.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,030 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 86 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 474 | 12.3 | Foreign born | 210 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 85 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 112 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 14,291 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 98 | 0.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,817 | 12.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,335 | 16.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,564 | 38.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 210 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,525 | 17.7 | Europe | 52 | 24.8 | |
| Associate degree | 559 | 3.9 | Asia | 58 | 27.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 873 | 6.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 618 | 4.3 | Oceania | 9 | 4.3 | |
| Latin America | 77 | 36.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.9 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 6.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,746 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 16,390 | 100.0 | English only | 18,312 | 97.7 | |
| Never married | 2,476 | 15.1 | Language other than English | 434 | 2.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,442 | 63.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 205 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 226 | 1.4 | Spanish | 226 | 1.2 | |
| Widowed | 1,421 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 106 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,185 | 7.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 147 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,825 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 61 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 985 | 6.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 47 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 19,798 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 322 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 14,771 | 74.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 173 | 53.7 | Arab | 50 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 15,619 | 100.0 | Dutch | 415 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,189 | 14.0 | English | 2,128 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 266 | 1.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 42 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,192 | 6.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,646 | 100.0 | Greek | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 245 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 11,268 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,127 | 10.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,982 | 26.5 | Italian | 272 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 45.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 8,286 | 73.5 | Norwegian | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 79 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,666 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,888 | 51.5 | Russian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 404 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 399 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 9 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,746 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 11,405 | 60.8 | Swedish | 64 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,315 | 39.0 | Swiss | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,052 | 16.3 | Ukrainian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 4,263 | 22.7 | United States or American | 4,902 | 24.8 | |
| Same state | 2,123 | 11.3 | Welsh | 96 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 2,140 | 11.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 26 | 0.1 | Other ancestries | 2,178 | 11.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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