DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pecos 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 | 16,809 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,947 | 100.0 | Native | 14,538 | 86.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 254 | 5.1 | Born in United States | 14,435 | 85.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 228 | 4.6 | State of residence | 12,337 | 73.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,243 | 45.3 | Different state | 2,098 | 12.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,435 | 29.0 | Born outside United States | 103 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 787 | 15.9 | Foreign born | 2,271 | 13.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 432 | 2.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 952 | 5.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,870 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,319 | 7.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,259 | 22.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,443 | 14.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,904 | 29.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,271 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,708 | 17.3 | Europe | 44 | 1.9 | |
| Associate degree | 281 | 2.8 | Asia | 38 | 1.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 773 | 7.8 | Africa | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 502 | 5.1 | Oceania | 8 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 2,149 | 94.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 62.5 | (X) | Northern America | 25 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,742 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,080 | 100.0 | English only | 6,949 | 44.1 | |
| Never married | 2,398 | 18.3 | Language other than English | 8,793 | 55.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,758 | 67.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,365 | 21.4 | |
| Separated | 383 | 2.9 | Spanish | 8,593 | 54.6 | |
| Widowed | 750 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,312 | 21.0 | |
| Female | 535 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 154 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 791 | 6.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 45 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 404 | 3.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,809 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 555 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,792 | 82.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 254 | 45.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 74 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 16 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,174 | 100.0 | Dutch | 151 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,227 | 10.1 | English | 684 | 4.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 115 | 0.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 840 | 5.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,316 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 429 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,493 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 803 | 4.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,372 | 31.7 | Italian | 53 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 62.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,121 | 68.3 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 89 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,856 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 948 | 51.1 | Russian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 238 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 194 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,742 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,947 | 56.8 | Swedish | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,351 | 40.3 | Swiss | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,708 | 17.2 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,643 | 23.1 | United States or American | 897 | 5.3 | |
| Same state | 2,767 | 17.6 | Welsh | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 876 | 5.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 444 | 2.8 | Other ancestries | 9,566 | 56.9 | |
| 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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