DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Harris 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 | 23,695 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,252 | 100.0 | Native | 23,247 | 98.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 576 | 9.2 | Born in United States | 22,840 | 96.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 465 | 7.4 | State of residence | 15,096 | 63.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,804 | 44.8 | Different state | 7,744 | 32.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,528 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 407 | 1.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 879 | 14.1 | Foreign born | 448 | 1.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 227 | 1.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 186 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,231 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 262 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,190 | 7.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,226 | 13.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,774 | 29.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 448 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,658 | 22.5 | Europe | 190 | 42.4 | |
| Associate degree | 951 | 5.9 | Asia | 96 | 21.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,247 | 13.8 | Africa | 133 | 29.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,185 | 7.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 22 | 4.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 79.0 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 1.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,279 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,727 | 100.0 | English only | 21,373 | 95.9 | |
| Never married | 3,264 | 17.4 | Language other than English | 906 | 4.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,914 | 63.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 293 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 423 | 2.3 | Spanish | 366 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 1,249 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 113 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 1,040 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 376 | 1.7 | |
| Divorced | 1,877 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 935 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 81 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 23,695 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 660 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,685 | 83.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 299 | 45.3 | Arab | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 51 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 44 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,555 | 100.0 | Dutch | 334 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,205 | 18.3 | English | 2,571 | 10.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 444 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 162 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,636 | 6.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,266 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 400 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,913 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,236 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 2,749 | 19.8 | Italian | 339 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 63.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 23 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 11,164 | 80.2 | Norwegian | 123 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 81.2 | (X) | Polish | 214 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,777 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 31 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,280 | 46.1 | Russian | 42 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 500 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 514 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,279 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 253 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,480 | 56.0 | Swedish | 108 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,454 | 42.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,688 | 12.1 | Ukrainian | 38 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 6,766 | 30.4 | United States or American | 3,867 | 16.3 | |
| Same state | 4,493 | 20.2 | Welsh | 104 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,273 | 10.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 345 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 5,998 | 25.3 | |
| 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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