DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bexar 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 | 1,392,931 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 407,384 | 100.0 | Native | 1,241,591 | 89.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 25,576 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 1,213,713 | 87.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 24,380 | 6.0 | State of residence | 910,726 | 65.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 181,303 | 44.5 | Different state | 302,987 | 21.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 88,050 | 21.6 | Born outside United States | 27,878 | 2.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 88,075 | 21.6 | Foreign born | 151,340 | 10.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 52,372 | 3.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 63,432 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 849,004 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 87,908 | 6.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 95,962 | 11.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 99,918 | 11.8 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 206,345 | 24.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 151,340 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 203,214 | 23.9 | Europe | 10,884 | 7.2 | |
| Associate degree | 51,111 | 6.0 | Asia | 19,142 | 12.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 121,669 | 14.3 | Africa | 1,628 | 1.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 70,785 | 8.3 | Oceania | 294 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 116,989 | 77.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.9 | (X) | Northern America | 2,403 | 1.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 1,283,614 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,060,445 | 100.0 | English only | 729,268 | 56.8 | |
| Never married | 295,044 | 27.8 | Language other than English | 554,346 | 43.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 554,685 | 52.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 189,296 | 14.7 | |
| Separated | 29,090 | 2.7 | Spanish | 517,887 | 40.3 | |
| Widowed | 61,459 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 177,858 | 13.9 | |
| Female | 50,743 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 18,515 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 120,167 | 11.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,944 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 72,479 | 6.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14,861 | 1.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,564 | 0.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 1,392,931 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 43,579 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,388,895 | 99.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 18,066 | 41.5 | Arab | 4,256 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 7,548 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,890 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 972,258 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9,263 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 153,696 | 15.8 | English | 78,057 | 5.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 27,658 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5,154 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 141,502 | 10.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 346,313 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,450 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 30,975 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 2,020 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 758,844 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 81,285 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 167,345 | 22.1 | Italian | 27,770 | 2.0 | |
| Percent employed | 58.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,112 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 591,499 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 6,733 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 21,074 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 138,157 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,649 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 63,067 | 45.6 | Russian | 3,784 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 19,789 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 15,929 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 712 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 1,283,614 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5,227 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 656,818 | 51.2 | Swedish | 7,146 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 589,410 | 45.9 | Swiss | 1,895 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 396,544 | 30.9 | Ukrainian | 1,050 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 192,866 | 15.0 | United States or American | 48,799 | 3.5 | |
| Same state | 89,255 | 7.0 | Welsh | 4,895 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 103,611 | 8.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,953 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 37,386 | 2.9 | Other ancestries | 857,295 | 61.5 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
