
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Crosby 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 | 7,072 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,992 | 100.0 | Native | 6,797 | 96.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 137 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 6,752 | 95.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 4.5 | State of residence | 6,138 | 86.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,043 | 52.4 | Different state | 614 | 8.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 538 | 27.0 | Born outside United States | 45 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 184 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 275 | 3.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 93 | 1.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 125 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 4,299 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 150 | 2.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 831 | 19.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 812 | 18.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,313 | 30.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 275 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 790 | 18.4 | Europe | 7 | 2.5 | |
| Associate degree | 100 | 2.3 | Asia | 10 | 3.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 319 | 7.4 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 134 | 3.1 | Oceania | 2 | 0.7 | |
| Latin America | 256 | 93.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 6,526 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 5,287 | 100.0 | English only | 3,799 | 58.2 | |
| Never married | 1,010 | 19.1 | Language other than English | 2,727 | 41.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,239 | 61.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 877 | 13.4 | |
| Separated | 156 | 3.0 | Spanish | 2,688 | 41.2 | |
| Widowed | 502 | 9.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 864 | 13.2 | |
| Female | 428 | 8.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 27 | 0.4 | |
| Divorced | 380 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 200 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 12 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 7,072 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 273 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 5,594 | 79.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 178 | 65.2 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 14 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,901 | 100.0 | Dutch | 50 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 473 | 9.7 | English | 404 | 5.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 69 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 328 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,925 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 172 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 3,506 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 344 | 4.9 | |
| With a disability | 852 | 24.3 | Italian | 25 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 52.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,654 | 75.7 | Norwegian | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 70.3 | (X) | Polish | 22 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,010 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 523 | 51.8 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 88 | 1.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 134 | 1.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 6,526 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,782 | 58.0 | Swedish | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,713 | 41.6 | Swiss | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,551 | 23.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,162 | 17.8 | United States or American | 670 | 9.5 | |
| Same state | 1,063 | 16.3 | Welsh | 29 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 99 | 1.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 31 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 3,375 | 47.7 | |
| 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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