DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Love 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 | 8,831 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,124 | 100.0 | Native | 8,545 | 96.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 136 | 6.4 | Born in United States | 8,511 | 96.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 92 | 4.3 | State of residence | 5,470 | 61.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,085 | 51.1 | Different state | 3,041 | 34.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 563 | 26.5 | Born outside United States | 34 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 248 | 11.7 | Foreign born | 286 | 3.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 108 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 97 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 5,931 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 189 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 554 | 9.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,013 | 17.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,453 | 41.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 286 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,102 | 18.6 | Europe | 9 | 3.1 | |
| Associate degree | 167 | 2.8 | Asia | 23 | 8.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 402 | 6.8 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 240 | 4.0 | Oceania | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 252 | 88.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 8,309 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,013 | 100.0 | English only | 7,722 | 92.9 | |
| Never married | 1,195 | 17.0 | Language other than English | 587 | 7.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,383 | 62.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 268 | 3.2 | |
| Separated | 133 | 1.9 | Spanish | 547 | 6.6 | |
| Widowed | 606 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 263 | 3.2 | |
| Female | 480 | 6.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 13 | 0.2 | |
| Divorced | 696 | 9.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 357 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 8,831 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 190 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 6,789 | 76.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 126 | 66.3 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 6,557 | 100.0 | Dutch | 185 | 2.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 896 | 13.7 | English | 494 | 5.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 169 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 17 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 605 | 6.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,041 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 170 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,809 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,004 | 11.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,097 | 22.8 | Italian | 60 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 59.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,712 | 77.2 | Norwegian | 45 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 74.8 | (X) | Polish | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,366 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 652 | 47.7 | Russian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 126 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 60 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 8,309 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,061 | 60.9 | Swedish | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,202 | 38.5 | Swiss | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,544 | 18.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,658 | 20.0 | United States or American | 1,609 | 18.2 | |
| Same state | 788 | 9.5 | Welsh | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 870 | 10.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 52 | 0.6 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 46 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 2,245 | 25.4 | |
| 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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