DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Echols 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 | 3,754 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 999 | 100.0 | Native | 3,281 | 87.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 71 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 3,264 | 86.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 6.3 | State of residence | 2,216 | 59.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 528 | 52.9 | Different state | 1,048 | 27.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 240 | 24.0 | Born outside United States | 17 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 97 | 9.7 | Foreign born | 473 | 12.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 369 | 9.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 54 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,167 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 419 | 11.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 387 | 17.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 470 | 21.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 772 | 35.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 473 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 323 | 14.9 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 34 | 1.6 | Asia | 12 | 2.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 142 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 39 | 1.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 461 | 97.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.5 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,502 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,817 | 100.0 | English only | 2,719 | 77.6 | |
| Never married | 746 | 26.5 | Language other than English | 783 | 22.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,489 | 52.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 349 | 10.0 | |
| Separated | 65 | 2.3 | Spanish | 738 | 21.1 | |
| Widowed | 197 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 326 | 9.3 | |
| Female | 156 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 41 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 320 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 193 | 6.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| 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 | 3,754 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 72 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,937 | 78.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 33 | 45.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,631 | 100.0 | Dutch | 15 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 255 | 9.7 | English | 129 | 3.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 16 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 97 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,096 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 126 | 11.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,063 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 113 | 3.0 | |
| With a disability | 458 | 22.2 | Italian | 22 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 47.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,605 | 77.8 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 78.4 | (X) | Polish | 12 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 336 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 199 | 59.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 13 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 16 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,502 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,027 | 57.9 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,202 | 34.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 226 | 6.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 976 | 27.9 | United States or American | 1,502 | 40.0 | |
| Same state | 695 | 19.8 | Welsh | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 281 | 8.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 273 | 7.8 | Other ancestries | 998 | 26.6 | |
| 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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