DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Jeff Davis 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 | 12,684 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,880 | 100.0 | Native | 12,202 | 96.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 263 | 9.1 | Born in United States | 12,174 | 96.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 152 | 5.3 | State of residence | 10,559 | 83.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,482 | 51.5 | Different state | 1,615 | 12.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 694 | 24.1 | Born outside United States | 28 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 289 | 10.0 | Foreign born | 482 | 3.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 355 | 2.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 81 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 8,036 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 401 | 3.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,055 | 13.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,895 | 23.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,847 | 35.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 482 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,163 | 14.5 | Europe | 40 | 8.3 | |
| Associate degree | 323 | 4.0 | Asia | 71 | 14.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 485 | 6.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 268 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 371 | 77.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 63.3 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 11,714 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,818 | 100.0 | English only | 11,046 | 94.3 | |
| Never married | 1,923 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 668 | 5.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,813 | 59.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 330 | 2.8 | |
| Separated | 264 | 2.7 | Spanish | 551 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 757 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 288 | 2.5 | |
| Female | 689 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 91 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,061 | 10.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 35 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 546 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 12,684 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 520 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,038 | 63.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 264 | 50.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 23 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,249 | 100.0 | Dutch | 25 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 919 | 9.9 | English | 657 | 5.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 17 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 336 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,990 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 226 | 7.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,119 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 729 | 5.7 | |
| With a disability | 1,883 | 26.5 | Italian | 114 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 43.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,236 | 73.5 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 73.9 | (X) | Polish | 32 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,504 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 883 | 58.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 87 | 0.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 101 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 11,714 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,095 | 60.6 | Swedish | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,486 | 38.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,666 | 22.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,820 | 15.5 | United States or American | 3,254 | 25.7 | |
| Same state | 1,235 | 10.5 | Welsh | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 585 | 5.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 133 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 2,575 | 20.3 | |
| 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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