
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hill 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 | 16,673 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,291 | 100.0 | Native | 16,341 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 385 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 16,220 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 251 | 4.7 | State of residence | 12,363 | 74.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,166 | 40.9 | Different state | 3,857 | 23.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,111 | 21.0 | Born outside United States | 121 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,378 | 26.0 | Foreign born | 332 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 46 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 284 | 1.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,031 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 48 | 0.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 580 | 5.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 743 | 7.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 3,222 | 32.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 332 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,534 | 25.3 | Europe | 69 | 20.8 | |
| Associate degree | 945 | 9.4 | Asia | 51 | 15.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,398 | 13.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 609 | 6.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 5 | 1.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 86.8 | (X) | Northern America | 207 | 62.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,457 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,858 | 100.0 | English only | 14,356 | 92.9 | |
| Never married | 3,275 | 25.5 | Language other than English | 1,101 | 7.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,230 | 56.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 408 | 2.6 | |
| Separated | 194 | 1.5 | Spanish | 80 | 0.5 | |
| Widowed | 929 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 817 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 392 | 2.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,230 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 151 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 628 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 46 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,673 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 289 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 19,468 | 116.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 201 | 69.6 | Arab | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 273 | 1.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 230 | 1.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,979 | 100.0 | Dutch | 328 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,712 | 14.3 | English | 1,500 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 599 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 137 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,238 | 25.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,369 | 100.0 | Greek | 81 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 321 | 7.3 | Hungarian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,930 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,145 | 12.9 | |
| With a disability | 1,531 | 17.1 | Italian | 478 | 2.9 | |
| Percent employed | 58.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 7,399 | 82.9 | Norwegian | 2,469 | 14.8 | |
| Percent employed | 77.4 | (X) | Polish | 464 | 2.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,014 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 14 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 773 | 38.4 | Russian | 106 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 355 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 292 | 1.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 25 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,457 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,559 | 55.4 | Swedish | 553 | 3.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,790 | 43.9 | Swiss | 42 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 3,634 | 23.5 | Ukrainian | 33 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 3,156 | 20.4 | United States or American | 941 | 5.6 | |
| Same state | 1,848 | 12.0 | Welsh | 126 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,308 | 8.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 108 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 3,946 | 23.7 | |
| 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)

