DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Bastrop 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 | 57,733 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 14,375 | 100.0 | Native | 53,060 | 91.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 839 | 5.8 | Born in United States | 52,353 | 90.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 938 | 6.5 | State of residence | 40,487 | 70.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,398 | 51.5 | Different state | 11,866 | 20.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,686 | 25.6 | Born outside United States | 707 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,514 | 10.5 | Foreign born | 4,673 | 8.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,883 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 1,064 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 37,249 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 3,609 | 6.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,022 | 10.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,581 | 12.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 11,806 | 31.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 4,673 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 8,526 | 22.9 | Europe | 364 | 7.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,967 | 5.3 | Asia | 232 | 5.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,609 | 12.4 | Africa | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,738 | 4.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3,984 | 85.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.9 | (X) | Northern America | 84 | 1.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 53,475 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 44,339 | 100.0 | English only | 41,574 | 77.7 | |
| Never married | 8,957 | 20.2 | Language other than English | 11,901 | 22.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 26,617 | 60.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,631 | 8.7 | |
| Separated | 947 | 2.1 | Spanish | 10,863 | 20.3 | |
| Widowed | 2,372 | 5.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,347 | 8.1 | |
| Female | 1,865 | 4.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 747 | 1.4 | |
| Divorced | 5,446 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 176 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,770 | 6.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 148 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 75 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 57,733 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,462 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 53,817 | 93.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 722 | 49.4 | Arab | 134 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,188 | 2.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 140 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 41,626 | 100.0 | Dutch | 520 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,232 | 15.0 | English | 4,883 | 8.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,132 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 238 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 9,781 | 16.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 13,771 | 100.0 | Greek | 94 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,107 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 32,075 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 4,895 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,095 | 19.0 | Italian | 919 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 64.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 25 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 25,980 | 81.0 | Norwegian | 302 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 77.1 | (X) | Polish | 642 | 1.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,647 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 29 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,769 | 49.0 | Russian | 165 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,487 | 2.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 918 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 53,475 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 85 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,794 | 52.0 | Swedish | 709 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 24,543 | 45.9 | Swiss | 127 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 8,221 | 15.4 | Ukrainian | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 16,322 | 30.5 | United States or American | 4,107 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 13,198 | 24.7 | Welsh | 272 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 3,124 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 89 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,138 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 20,810 | 36.0 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)
