
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lampasas 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 | 17,762 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,706 | 100.0 | Native | 16,704 | 94.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 270 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 16,182 | 91.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 258 | 5.5 | State of residence | 10,552 | 59.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,216 | 47.1 | Different state | 5,630 | 31.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,357 | 28.8 | Born outside United States | 522 | 2.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 605 | 12.9 | Foreign born | 1,058 | 6.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 280 | 1.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 500 | 2.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,491 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 558 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,007 | 8.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,431 | 12.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,500 | 30.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,058 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,966 | 25.8 | Europe | 394 | 37.2 | |
| Associate degree | 728 | 6.3 | Asia | 76 | 7.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,256 | 10.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 603 | 5.2 | Oceania | 7 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 557 | 52.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.8 | (X) | Northern America | 24 | 2.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 16,550 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,874 | 100.0 | English only | 13,923 | 84.1 | |
| Never married | 2,522 | 18.2 | Language other than English | 2,627 | 15.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,579 | 61.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,066 | 6.4 | |
| Separated | 264 | 1.9 | Spanish | 1,936 | 11.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,121 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 917 | 5.5 | |
| Female | 945 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 549 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 1,388 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 108 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 704 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 139 | 0.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 41 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 17,762 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 335 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,360 | 92.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 157 | 46.9 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 89 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,474 | 100.0 | Dutch | 190 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,954 | 23.7 | English | 1,726 | 9.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 459 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 70 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,942 | 16.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,310 | 100.0 | Greek | 37 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 486 | 11.3 | Hungarian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,176 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,090 | 11.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,123 | 23.1 | Italian | 413 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 57.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,053 | 76.9 | Norwegian | 104 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 76.9 | (X) | Polish | 211 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,379 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 19 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,170 | 49.2 | Russian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 460 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 333 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 16,550 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 66 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,658 | 52.3 | Swedish | 133 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 7,487 | 45.2 | Swiss | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,242 | 19.6 | Ukrainian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 4,245 | 25.6 | United States or American | 2,190 | 12.3 | |
| Same state | 2,890 | 17.5 | Welsh | 61 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,355 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 405 | 2.4 | Other ancestries | 4,665 | 26.3 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

