DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Dallas 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 | 2,218,899 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 591,553 | 100.0 | Native | 1,755,325 | 79.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 41,239 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 1,737,373 | 78.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 36,947 | 6.2 | State of residence | 1,224,712 | 55.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 280,153 | 47.4 | Different state | 512,661 | 23.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 124,272 | 21.0 | Born outside United States | 17,952 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 108,942 | 18.4 | Foreign born | 463,574 | 20.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 264,942 | 11.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 102,201 | 4.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,365,848 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 361,373 | 16.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 163,076 | 11.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 179,020 | 13.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 295,823 | 21.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 463,574 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 291,063 | 21.3 | Europe | 18,701 | 4.0 | |
| Associate degree | 68,717 | 5.0 | Asia | 76,138 | 16.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 245,829 | 18.0 | Africa | 17,044 | 3.7 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 122,320 | 9.0 | Oceania | 967 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 346,793 | 74.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 75.0 | (X) | Northern America | 3,931 | 0.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,038,325 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,695,384 | 100.0 | English only | 1,375,049 | 67.5 | |
| Never married | 508,471 | 30.0 | Language other than English | 663,276 | 32.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 870,992 | 51.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 367,243 | 18.0 | |
| Separated | 51,058 | 3.0 | Spanish | 539,570 | 26.5 | |
| Widowed | 84,460 | 5.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 316,065 | 15.5 | |
| Female | 69,817 | 4.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 46,167 | 2.3 | |
| Divorced | 180,403 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14,115 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 107,510 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 58,131 | 2.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31,347 | 1.5 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,218,899 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 58,182 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,091,022 | 94.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 26,336 | 45.3 | Arab | 8,649 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 10,676 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4,541 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,600,826 | 100.0 | Dutch | 18,515 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 150,632 | 9.4 | English | 151,028 | 6.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 39,267 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 6,186 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 169,946 | 7.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 532,080 | 100.0 | Greek | 3,601 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 45,831 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 3,392 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,313,495 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 140,456 | 6.3 | |
| With a disability | 274,176 | 20.9 | Italian | 34,275 | 1.5 | |
| Percent employed | 61.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,586 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 1,039,319 | 79.1 | Norwegian | 12,617 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 76.1 | (X) | Polish | 19,785 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 168,972 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,613 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 72,304 | 42.8 | Russian | 8,700 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 34,102 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 31,447 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,133 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,038,325 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 30,599 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 923,752 | 45.3 | Swedish | 13,388 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 977,492 | 48.0 | Swiss | 3,326 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 664,899 | 32.6 | Ukrainian | 1,795 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 312,593 | 15.3 | United States or American | 133,618 | 6.0 | |
| Same state | 171,981 | 8.4 | Welsh | 9,289 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 140,612 | 6.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4,104 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 137,081 | 6.7 | Other ancestries | 1,193,388 | 53.8 | |
| 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)
