DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Maverick 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 | 47,297 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,541 | 100.0 | Native | 29,430 | 62.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 889 | 5.7 | Born in United States | 28,683 | 60.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,081 | 7.0 | State of residence | 25,458 | 53.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,491 | 54.6 | Different state | 3,225 | 6.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,528 | 22.7 | Born outside United States | 747 | 1.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,552 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 17,867 | 37.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 4,790 | 10.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 7,164 | 15.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 25,468 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 10,703 | 22.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 10,227 | 40.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,511 | 17.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,792 | 18.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 17,867 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,760 | 10.8 | Europe | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Associate degree | 860 | 3.4 | Asia | 153 | 0.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,456 | 5.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 862 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 17,678 | 98.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 42.1 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 42,566 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 32,602 | 100.0 | English only | 3,383 | 7.9 | |
| Never married | 7,830 | 24.0 | Language other than English | 39,183 | 92.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 20,089 | 61.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20,135 | 47.3 | |
| Separated | 1,065 | 3.3 | Spanish | 38,562 | 90.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,085 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19,783 | 46.5 | |
| Female | 1,749 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 81 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,533 | 4.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 923 | 2.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 131 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 100 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 47,297 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,435 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 43,994 | 93.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 848 | 34.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 20 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 29,768 | 100.0 | Dutch | 17 | 0.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,500 | 5.0 | English | 107 | 0.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 113 | 0.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 265 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,962 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 826 | 5.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 23,048 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 238 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 5,608 | 24.3 | Italian | 75 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 45.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 17,440 | 75.7 | Norwegian | 41 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 55.5 | (X) | Polish | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,473 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 18 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,350 | 52.5 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 65 | 0.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 89 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 42,566 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 33 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,542 | 64.7 | Swedish | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,326 | 31.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 9,677 | 22.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,649 | 8.6 | United States or American | 499 | 1.1 | |
| Same state | 2,512 | 5.9 | Welsh | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 1,137 | 2.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,698 | 4.0 | Other ancestries | 42,302 | 89.4 | |
| 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
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