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 | 61,610 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 17,177 | 100.0 | Native | 58,118 | 94.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,491 | 8.7 | Born in United States | 54,306 | 88.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,162 | 6.8 | State of residence | 20,235 | 32.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 8,502 | 49.5 | Different state | 34,071 | 55.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,418 | 19.9 | Born outside United States | 3,812 | 6.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,604 | 15.2 | Foreign born | 3,492 | 5.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,613 | 2.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,404 | 2.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 30,797 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,088 | 3.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,039 | 3.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,035 | 9.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 10,545 | 34.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,492 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 9,449 | 30.7 | Europe | 892 | 25.5 | |
| Associate degree | 2,260 | 7.3 | Asia | 825 | 23.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,958 | 9.6 | Africa | 121 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,511 | 4.9 | Oceania | 59 | 1.7 | |
| Latin America | 1,512 | 43.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.8 | (X) | Northern America | 83 | 2.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,210 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 44,501 | 100.0 | English only | 48,106 | 87.1 | |
| Never married | 12,626 | 28.4 | Language other than English | 7,104 | 12.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 25,806 | 58.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,183 | 4.0 | |
| Separated | 1,064 | 2.4 | Spanish | 3,909 | 7.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,301 | 2.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,216 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 1,066 | 2.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 2,041 | 3.7 | |
| Divorced | 3,704 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 432 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 2,122 | 4.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,022 | 1.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 507 | 0.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 61,610 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,183 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 59,962 | 97.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 731 | 61.8 | Arab | 79 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 86 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 194 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 29,770 | 100.0 | Dutch | 492 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 7,622 | 25.6 | English | 2,682 | 4.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,062 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 225 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 5,154 | 8.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,437 | 100.0 | Greek | 87 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,225 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 58 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 25,101 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,958 | 6.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,808 | 19.2 | Italian | 1,322 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 54.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 70 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 20,293 | 80.8 | Norwegian | 288 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 64.9 | (X) | Polish | 648 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,331 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 49 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,266 | 54.3 | Russian | 37 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 706 | 1.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 710 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 20 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,210 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 653 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,027 | 32.7 | Swedish | 298 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 32,503 | 58.9 | Swiss | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 7,595 | 13.8 | Ukrainian | 91 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 24,908 | 45.1 | United States or American | 6,269 | 10.2 | |
| Same state | 4,675 | 8.5 | Welsh | 189 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 20,233 | 36.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 680 | 1.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4,680 | 8.5 | Other ancestries | 33,841 | 54.9 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
