
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Culberson 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 | 2,975 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 888 | 100.0 | Native | 2,512 | 84.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 36 | 4.1 | Born in United States | 2,492 | 83.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 7.8 | State of residence | 2,116 | 71.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 417 | 47.0 | Different state | 376 | 12.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 255 | 28.7 | Born outside United States | 20 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 111 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 463 | 15.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 74 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 295 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,781 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 168 | 5.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 474 | 26.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 307 | 17.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 492 | 27.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 463 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 215 | 12.1 | Europe | 5 | 1.1 | |
| Associate degree | 46 | 2.6 | Asia | 17 | 3.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 183 | 10.3 | Africa | 2 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 64 | 3.6 | Oceania | 3 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 436 | 94.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 56.1 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,754 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,229 | 100.0 | English only | 733 | 26.6 | |
| Never married | 515 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 2,021 | 73.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,314 | 59.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 737 | 26.8 | |
| Separated | 66 | 3.0 | Spanish | 1,986 | 72.1 | |
| Widowed | 153 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 727 | 26.4 | |
| Female | 105 | 4.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 24 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 181 | 8.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 113 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,975 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 119 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,993 | 100.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 72 | 60.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 6 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,022 | 100.0 | Dutch | 20 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 193 | 9.5 | English | 140 | 4.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 28 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 126 | 4.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 857 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 21 | 2.5 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,573 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 169 | 5.7 | |
| With a disability | 356 | 22.6 | Italian | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 61.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,217 | 77.4 | Norwegian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 75.3 | (X) | Polish | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 315 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 124 | 39.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 14 | 0.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 12 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,754 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,874 | 68.0 | Swedish | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 844 | 30.6 | Swiss | 11 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 412 | 15.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 432 | 15.7 | United States or American | 122 | 4.1 | |
| Same state | 276 | 10.0 | Welsh | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 156 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 36 | 1.3 | Other ancestries | 2,328 | 78.3 | |
| 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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