
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 | 2,158 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 512 | 100.0 | Native | 2,128 | 98.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 22 | 4.3 | Born in United States | 2,099 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 6.6 | State of residence | 1,652 | 76.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 264 | 51.6 | Different state | 447 | 20.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 158 | 30.9 | Born outside United States | 29 | 1.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 34 | 6.6 | Foreign born | 30 | 1.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 26 | 1.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,470 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 211 | 14.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 156 | 10.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 368 | 25.0 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 30 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 393 | 26.7 | Europe | 5 | 16.7 | |
| Associate degree | 83 | 5.6 | Asia | 4 | 13.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 208 | 14.1 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 51 | 3.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 2 | 6.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.0 | (X) | Northern America | 19 | 63.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,049 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,737 | 100.0 | English only | 1,704 | 83.2 | |
| Never married | 359 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 345 | 16.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,149 | 66.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 166 | 8.1 | |
| Separated | 15 | 0.9 | Spanish | 11 | 0.5 | |
| Widowed | 107 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 91 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 328 | 16.0 | |
| Divorced | 107 | 6.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 162 | 7.9 | |
| Female | 45 | 2.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,158 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 19 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,295 | 106.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 12 | 63.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 30 | 1.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 43 | 2.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,597 | 100.0 | Dutch | 60 | 2.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 173 | 10.8 | English | 214 | 9.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 73 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 21 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 779 | 36.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 516 | 100.0 | Greek | 3 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 36 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,112 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 162 | 7.5 | |
| With a disability | 172 | 15.5 | Italian | 28 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 50.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 940 | 84.5 | Norwegian | 422 | 19.6 | |
| Percent employed | 74.4 | (X) | Polish | 26 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 362 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 114 | 31.5 | Russian | 19 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 42 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 48 | 2.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,049 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,520 | 74.2 | Swedish | 100 | 4.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 525 | 25.6 | Swiss | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 225 | 11.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 300 | 14.6 | United States or American | 93 | 4.3 | |
| Same state | 234 | 11.4 | Welsh | 15 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 66 | 3.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 4 | 0.2 | Other ancestries | 102 | 4.7 | |
| 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
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