
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: McMullen 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 | 851 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 191 | 100.0 | Native | 815 | 95.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 0 | 0.0 | Born in United States | 815 | 95.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 4 | 2.1 | State of residence | 756 | 88.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 119 | 62.3 | Different state | 59 | 6.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 49 | 25.7 | Born outside United States | 0 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 19 | 9.9 | Foreign born | 36 | 4.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 5 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 2 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 613 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 34 | 4.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 81 | 13.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 74 | 12.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 216 | 35.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 36 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 116 | 18.9 | Europe | 2 | 5.6 | |
| Associate degree | 27 | 4.4 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 82 | 13.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 17 | 2.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 34 | 94.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 821 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 698 | 100.0 | English only | 596 | 72.6 | |
| Never married | 112 | 16.0 | Language other than English | 225 | 27.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 455 | 65.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 74 | 9.0 | |
| Separated | 13 | 1.9 | Spanish | 219 | 26.7 | |
| Widowed | 70 | 10.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 70 | 8.5 | |
| Female | 44 | 6.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 4 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 48 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 18 | 2.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 851 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 19 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 686 | 80.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2 | 10.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 24 | 2.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 655 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5 | 0.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 100 | 15.3 | English | 81 | 9.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 12 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 83 | 9.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 191 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 10 | 5.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 468 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 62 | 7.3 | |
| With a disability | 112 | 23.9 | Italian | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 66.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 356 | 76.1 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 63.5 | (X) | Polish | 8 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 162 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 86 | 53.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 26 | 3.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 5 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 821 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 588 | 71.6 | Swedish | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 228 | 27.8 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 102 | 12.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 126 | 15.3 | United States or American | 68 | 8.0 | |
| Same state | 118 | 14.4 | Welsh | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 8 | 1.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 305 | 35.8 | |
| 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)

