
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 | 7,021 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,492 | 100.0 | Native | 6,875 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 57 | 3.8 | Born in United States | 6,858 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 4.8 | State of residence | 5,788 | 82.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 746 | 50.0 | Different state | 1,070 | 15.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 399 | 26.7 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 218 | 14.6 | Foreign born | 146 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 87 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 49 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,828 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 97 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 477 | 9.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,186 | 24.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,952 | 40.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 146 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 712 | 14.7 | Europe | 40 | 27.4 | |
| Associate degree | 145 | 3.0 | Asia | 14 | 9.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 193 | 4.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 163 | 3.4 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 92 | 63.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,641 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,802 | 100.0 | English only | 6,278 | 94.5 | |
| Never married | 1,355 | 23.4 | Language other than English | 363 | 5.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,795 | 48.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 145 | 2.2 | |
| Separated | 167 | 2.9 | Spanish | 306 | 4.6 | |
| Widowed | 504 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 145 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 355 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 44 | 0.7 | |
| Divorced | 981 | 16.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 314 | 5.4 | 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 | 7,021 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 105 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,528 | 64.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 71 | 67.6 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 12 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 5,486 | 100.0 | Dutch | 111 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 725 | 13.2 | English | 330 | 4.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 53 | 0.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 306 | 4.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,366 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 143 | 10.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,162 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 444 | 6.3 | |
| With a disability | 914 | 28.9 | Italian | 60 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 44.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,248 | 71.1 | Norwegian | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 78.5 | (X) | Polish | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 728 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 437 | 60.0 | Russian | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 40 | 0.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 64 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,641 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,893 | 58.6 | Swedish | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,405 | 36.2 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 825 | 12.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,580 | 23.8 | United States or American | 1,705 | 24.3 | |
| Same state | 1,343 | 20.2 | Welsh | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 237 | 3.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 343 | 5.2 | Other ancestries | 1,318 | 18.8 | |
| 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)

