DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Cameron 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 | 335,227 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 109,790 | 100.0 | Native | 249,504 | 74.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,102 | 6.5 | Born in United States | 245,275 | 73.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 7,554 | 6.9 | State of residence | 205,486 | 61.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 52,200 | 47.5 | Different state | 39,789 | 11.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 26,212 | 23.9 | Born outside United States | 4,229 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 16,722 | 15.2 | Foreign born | 85,723 | 25.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 28,946 | 8.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 29,571 | 8.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 187,064 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 56,152 | 16.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 54,954 | 29.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 28,762 | 15.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 37,615 | 20.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 85,723 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 32,734 | 17.5 | Europe | 841 | 1.0 | |
| Associate degree | 8,014 | 4.3 | Asia | 1,209 | 1.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 15,785 | 8.4 | Africa | 156 | 0.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 9,200 | 4.9 | Oceania | 25 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 82,816 | 96.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 55.2 | (X) | Northern America | 676 | 0.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 303,696 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 240,478 | 100.0 | English only | 63,824 | 21.0 | |
| Never married | 62,105 | 25.8 | Language other than English | 239,872 | 79.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 138,651 | 57.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107,847 | 35.5 | |
| Separated | 8,134 | 3.4 | Spanish | 237,660 | 78.3 | |
| Widowed | 15,406 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 107,210 | 35.3 | |
| Female | 12,804 | 5.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 961 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 16,182 | 6.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 201 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 9,750 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 971 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 309 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 335,227 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 14,522 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 311,484 | 92.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 4,530 | 31.2 | Arab | 284 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 504 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 311 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 221,926 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,077 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 19,394 | 8.7 | English | 7,885 | 2.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,358 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 427 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,707 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 97,106 | 100.0 | Greek | 104 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 8,315 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 124 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 167,002 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,142 | 1.8 | |
| With a disability | 40,313 | 24.1 | Italian | 1,760 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 49.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 46 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 126,689 | 75.9 | Norwegian | 1,215 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 61.7 | (X) | Polish | 1,065 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 36,094 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 121 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 16,764 | 46.4 | Russian | 224 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,102 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,348 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 49 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 303,696 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 346 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 177,736 | 58.5 | Swedish | 856 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 113,959 | 37.5 | Swiss | 242 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 85,786 | 28.2 | Ukrainian | 208 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 28,173 | 9.3 | United States or American | 9,792 | 2.9 | |
| Same state | 15,034 | 5.0 | Welsh | 380 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 13,139 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 121 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12,001 | 4.0 | Other ancestries | 262,686 | 78.4 | |
| 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)
