DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Willacy 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 | 20,082 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,058 | 100.0 | Native | 17,415 | 86.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 425 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 17,290 | 86.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 397 | 6.6 | State of residence | 15,647 | 77.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,026 | 50.0 | Different state | 1,643 | 8.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,590 | 26.2 | Born outside United States | 125 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 620 | 10.2 | Foreign born | 2,667 | 13.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 641 | 3.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,196 | 6.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 11,332 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,471 | 7.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,060 | 35.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,748 | 15.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,760 | 24.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,667 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,719 | 15.2 | Europe | 28 | 1.0 | |
| Associate degree | 195 | 1.7 | Asia | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 615 | 5.4 | Africa | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 235 | 2.1 | Oceania | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 2,616 | 98.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 48.7 | (X) | Northern America | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,409 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 14,808 | 100.0 | English only | 4,033 | 21.9 | |
| Never married | 4,194 | 28.3 | Language other than English | 14,376 | 78.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,008 | 54.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,934 | 32.2 | |
| Separated | 444 | 3.0 | Spanish | 14,329 | 77.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,014 | 6.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,923 | 32.2 | |
| Female | 812 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 29 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 1,148 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 561 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 20,082 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 892 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,844 | 88.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 363 | 40.7 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 23 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 13,723 | 100.0 | Dutch | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,068 | 7.8 | English | 255 | 1.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 68 | 0.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 359 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,581 | 100.0 | Greek | 7 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 461 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,362 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 200 | 1.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,066 | 22.1 | Italian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 42.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,296 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 62.5 | (X) | Polish | 58 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,374 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,069 | 45.0 | Russian | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 69 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 33 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,409 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 43 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,918 | 70.2 | Swedish | 77 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,187 | 28.2 | Swiss | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,181 | 17.3 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,006 | 10.9 | United States or American | 626 | 3.1 | |
| Same state | 1,480 | 8.0 | Welsh | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 526 | 2.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 304 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 15,845 | 78.9 | |
| 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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