DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Liberty 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 | 70,154 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 17,632 | 100.0 | Native | 66,591 | 94.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 901 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 66,005 | 94.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,241 | 7.0 | State of residence | 51,970 | 74.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,434 | 53.5 | Different state | 14,035 | 20.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,422 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 586 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,634 | 9.3 | Foreign born | 3,563 | 5.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,661 | 2.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 739 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 44,206 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,824 | 4.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,663 | 10.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,794 | 19.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 15,991 | 36.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,563 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,785 | 22.1 | Europe | 105 | 2.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,410 | 3.2 | Asia | 113 | 3.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,364 | 5.3 | Africa | 46 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,199 | 2.7 | Oceania | 24 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 3,228 | 90.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.6 | (X) | Northern America | 47 | 1.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 65,425 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 54,162 | 100.0 | English only | 57,395 | 87.7 | |
| Never married | 10,793 | 19.9 | Language other than English | 8,030 | 12.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 32,485 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,300 | 5.0 | |
| Separated | 1,605 | 3.0 | Spanish | 7,042 | 10.8 | |
| Widowed | 3,567 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,128 | 4.8 | |
| Female | 2,731 | 5.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 733 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 5,712 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 98 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 3,393 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 129 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 52 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 70,154 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,762 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 56,658 | 80.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,043 | 59.2 | Arab | 61 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 699 | 1.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 52 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 50,843 | 100.0 | Dutch | 770 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,487 | 12.8 | English | 3,929 | 5.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 2,891 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 462 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,998 | 7.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 17,143 | 100.0 | Greek | 68 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,498 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 67 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 36,409 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,254 | 8.9 | |
| With a disability | 8,542 | 23.5 | Italian | 961 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 51.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 59 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 27,867 | 76.5 | Norwegian | 156 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 69.7 | (X) | Polish | 682 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,835 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,476 | 50.9 | Russian | 51 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 888 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 714 | 1.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 65,425 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 197 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 35,956 | 55.0 | Swedish | 156 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 28,499 | 43.6 | Swiss | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 11,484 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 17,015 | 26.0 | United States or American | 12,236 | 17.4 | |
| Same state | 14,593 | 22.3 | Welsh | 293 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,422 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 87 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 970 | 1.5 | Other ancestries | 19,910 | 28.4 | |
| 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)
