
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Guadalupe 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 | 4,680 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,279 | 100.0 | Native | 4,493 | 96.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 44 | 3.4 | Born in United States | 4,469 | 95.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 4.9 | State of residence | 3,658 | 78.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 549 | 42.9 | Different state | 811 | 17.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 405 | 31.7 | Born outside United States | 24 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 218 | 17.0 | Foreign born | 187 | 4.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 83 | 1.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 60 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,099 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 127 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 425 | 13.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 556 | 17.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,163 | 37.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 187 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 571 | 18.4 | Europe | 8 | 4.3 | |
| Associate degree | 65 | 2.1 | Asia | 3 | 1.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 150 | 4.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 169 | 5.5 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 163 | 87.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 68.3 | (X) | Northern America | 13 | 7.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,424 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 3,759 | 100.0 | English only | 1,466 | 33.1 | |
| Never married | 1,011 | 26.9 | Language other than English | 2,958 | 66.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,041 | 54.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 617 | 13.9 | |
| Separated | 73 | 1.9 | Spanish | 2,902 | 65.6 | |
| Widowed | 292 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 599 | 13.5 | |
| Female | 202 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 16 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 342 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 143 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 4,680 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 73 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,213 | 90.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 36 | 49.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,537 | 100.0 | Dutch | 41 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 508 | 14.4 | English | 112 | 2.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 49 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 225 | 4.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,077 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 58 | 5.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,225 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 92 | 2.0 | |
| With a disability | 588 | 26.4 | Italian | 51 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 48.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 9 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 1,637 | 73.6 | Norwegian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 68.5 | (X) | Polish | 15 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 609 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 22 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 339 | 55.7 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 22 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 11 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,424 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 2,753 | 62.2 | Swedish | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,618 | 36.6 | Swiss | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 696 | 15.7 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 922 | 20.8 | United States or American | 129 | 2.8 | |
| Same state | 642 | 14.5 | Welsh | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 280 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 53 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 3,402 | 72.7 | |
| 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)

