DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Taylor 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 | 8,815 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,199 | 100.0 | Native | 8,728 | 99.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 138 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 8,702 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 171 | 7.8 | State of residence | 7,739 | 87.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,070 | 48.7 | Different state | 963 | 10.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 564 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 26 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 256 | 11.6 | Foreign born | 87 | 1.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 49 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 28 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,594 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 59 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 840 | 15.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,198 | 21.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,179 | 39.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 87 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 742 | 13.3 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 159 | 2.8 | Asia | 6 | 6.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 329 | 5.9 | Africa | 18 | 20.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 147 | 2.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 61 | 70.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.6 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,188 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 6,868 | 100.0 | English only | 7,982 | 97.5 | |
| Never married | 1,901 | 27.7 | Language other than English | 206 | 2.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,270 | 47.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 78 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 297 | 4.3 | Spanish | 168 | 2.1 | |
| Widowed | 690 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 63 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 580 | 8.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 24 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 710 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 316 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,815 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 287 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,621 | 75.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 150 | 52.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,421 | 100.0 | Dutch | 19 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 691 | 10.8 | English | 566 | 6.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 42 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 197 | 2.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,095 | 100.0 | Greek | 9 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 230 | 11.0 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,638 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 403 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,198 | 25.8 | Italian | 51 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 45.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,440 | 74.2 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 64.2 | (X) | Polish | 37 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,112 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 600 | 54.0 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 81 | 0.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 52 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,188 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 31 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,483 | 67.0 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,662 | 32.5 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,560 | 19.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,102 | 13.5 | United States or American | 1,317 | 14.9 | |
| Same state | 835 | 10.2 | Welsh | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 267 | 3.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 43 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,747 | 42.5 | |
| 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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