DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Terrell 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 | 10,970 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,960 | 100.0 | Native | 10,785 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 222 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 10,711 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 226 | 7.6 | State of residence | 9,342 | 85.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,413 | 47.7 | Different state | 1,369 | 12.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 763 | 25.8 | Born outside United States | 74 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 336 | 11.4 | Foreign born | 185 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 67 | 0.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 95 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,741 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 90 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 795 | 11.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,599 | 23.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,212 | 32.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 185 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,171 | 17.4 | Europe | 42 | 22.7 | |
| Associate degree | 244 | 3.6 | Asia | 90 | 48.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 411 | 6.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 309 | 4.6 | Oceania | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 49 | 26.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 64.5 | (X) | Northern America | 2 | 1.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,119 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,345 | 100.0 | English only | 9,752 | 96.4 | |
| Never married | 2,547 | 30.5 | Language other than English | 367 | 3.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,816 | 45.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 139 | 1.4 | |
| Separated | 380 | 4.6 | Spanish | 165 | 1.6 | |
| Widowed | 861 | 10.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 67 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 698 | 8.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 124 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 741 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 388 | 4.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 39 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 18 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,970 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 429 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,736 | 79.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 284 | 66.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 20 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,820 | 100.0 | Dutch | 158 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 922 | 11.8 | English | 482 | 4.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 56 | 0.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 309 | 2.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,814 | 100.0 | Greek | 6 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 298 | 10.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,750 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 436 | 4.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,654 | 28.8 | Italian | 135 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 50.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,096 | 71.2 | Norwegian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 70.5 | (X) | Polish | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,373 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 703 | 51.2 | Russian | 10 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 171 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 99 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,119 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 51 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,295 | 62.2 | Swedish | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,730 | 36.9 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,173 | 21.5 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,557 | 15.4 | United States or American | 1,067 | 9.7 | |
| Same state | 1,071 | 10.6 | Welsh | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 486 | 4.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 94 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 5,699 | 52.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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