DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stephens 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 | 25,435 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 6,355 | 100.0 | Native | 25,067 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 474 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 24,897 | 97.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 312 | 4.9 | State of residence | 18,159 | 71.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,889 | 45.5 | Different state | 6,738 | 26.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,180 | 18.6 | Born outside United States | 170 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,500 | 23.6 | Foreign born | 368 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 157 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 180 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 16,771 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 188 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,909 | 11.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,934 | 17.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,014 | 35.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 368 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,982 | 17.8 | Europe | 69 | 18.8 | |
| Associate degree | 570 | 3.4 | Asia | 81 | 22.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,580 | 9.4 | Africa | 65 | 17.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 782 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 143 | 38.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.1 | (X) | Northern America | 10 | 2.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 14.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 23,818 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 20,378 | 100.0 | English only | 22,973 | 96.5 | |
| Never married | 4,161 | 20.4 | Language other than English | 845 | 3.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,226 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 272 | 1.1 | |
| Separated | 330 | 1.6 | Spanish | 415 | 1.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,674 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 152 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 1,358 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 228 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,987 | 9.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,135 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 116 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 25,435 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 496 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 20,014 | 78.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 301 | 60.7 | Arab | 31 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 54 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 19 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 19,519 | 100.0 | Dutch | 290 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,404 | 12.3 | English | 2,669 | 10.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 400 | 1.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 117 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,608 | 6.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,561 | 100.0 | Greek | 34 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 363 | 6.5 | Hungarian | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 14,163 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,018 | 7.9 | |
| With a disability | 3,366 | 23.8 | Italian | 421 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 51.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 10,797 | 76.2 | Norwegian | 130 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 82.0 | (X) | Polish | 141 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,752 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,860 | 49.6 | Russian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 504 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 395 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 23,818 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 94 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 13,964 | 58.6 | Swedish | 106 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,603 | 40.3 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 5,621 | 23.6 | Ukrainian | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 3,982 | 16.7 | United States or American | 5,750 | 22.6 | |
| Same state | 2,229 | 9.4 | Welsh | 121 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 1,753 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 71 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 251 | 1.1 | Other ancestries | 4,904 | 19.3 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
