DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jim Hogg 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 | 5,281 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,506 | 100.0 | Native | 5,011 | 94.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 83 | 5.5 | Born in United States | 4,993 | 94.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 121 | 8.0 | State of residence | 4,766 | 90.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 756 | 50.2 | Different state | 227 | 4.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 378 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 18 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 168 | 11.2 | Foreign born | 270 | 5.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 58 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 126 | 2.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,203 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 144 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 829 | 25.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 516 | 16.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 906 | 28.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 270 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 556 | 17.4 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 91 | 2.8 | Asia | 4 | 1.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 193 | 6.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 112 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 259 | 95.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 58.0 | (X) | Northern America | 7 | 2.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,859 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,918 | 100.0 | English only | 883 | 18.2 | |
| Never married | 945 | 24.1 | Language other than English | 3,976 | 81.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,266 | 57.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,342 | 27.6 | |
| Separated | 112 | 2.9 | Spanish | 3,967 | 81.6 | |
| Widowed | 330 | 8.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,338 | 27.5 | |
| Female | 270 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Divorced | 265 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 122 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,281 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 177 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,446 | 84.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 103 | 58.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,611 | 100.0 | Dutch | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 358 | 9.9 | English | 34 | 0.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 18 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 67 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,413 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 97 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,701 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 10 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 615 | 22.8 | Italian | 14 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 47.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,086 | 77.2 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 66.4 | (X) | Polish | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 711 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 435 | 61.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 21 | 0.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 32 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,859 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,925 | 60.2 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,909 | 39.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,419 | 29.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 490 | 10.1 | United States or American | 76 | 1.4 | |
| Same state | 461 | 9.5 | Welsh | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 29 | 0.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 25 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 4,130 | 78.2 | |
| 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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