DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Erath 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 | 33,001 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 11,111 | 100.0 | Native | 30,587 | 92.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 526 | 4.7 | Born in United States | 30,332 | 91.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 469 | 4.2 | State of residence | 24,634 | 74.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,812 | 34.3 | Different state | 5,698 | 17.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,717 | 15.5 | Born outside United States | 255 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,587 | 41.3 | Foreign born | 2,414 | 7.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,218 | 3.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 837 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 19,350 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,577 | 4.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,829 | 9.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,595 | 13.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,149 | 26.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,414 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,331 | 22.4 | Europe | 177 | 7.3 | |
| Associate degree | 617 | 3.2 | Asia | 168 | 7.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,124 | 16.1 | Africa | 22 | 0.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,705 | 8.8 | Oceania | 15 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 2,024 | 83.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.1 | (X) | Northern America | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,891 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 26,231 | 100.0 | English only | 26,313 | 85.2 | |
| Never married | 6,020 | 22.9 | Language other than English | 4,578 | 14.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,888 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,171 | 7.0 | |
| Separated | 419 | 1.6 | Spanish | 4,059 | 13.1 | |
| Widowed | 1,916 | 7.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,097 | 6.8 | |
| Female | 1,608 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 398 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 1,988 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 43 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,067 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 114 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 31 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,001 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 554 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 26,735 | 81.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 279 | 50.4 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 272 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 54 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 24,870 | 100.0 | Dutch | 839 | 2.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,623 | 10.5 | English | 3,358 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 675 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 96 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,488 | 10.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,556 | 100.0 | Greek | 24 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 502 | 5.9 | Hungarian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,786 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,466 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 3,068 | 17.2 | Italian | 313 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 62.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 14,718 | 82.8 | Norwegian | 116 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.7 | (X) | Polish | 172 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 4,026 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 16 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,824 | 45.3 | Russian | 9 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 637 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 503 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,891 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 32 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 14,669 | 47.5 | Swedish | 245 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 15,421 | 49.9 | Swiss | 26 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 7,588 | 24.6 | Ukrainian | 7 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 7,833 | 25.4 | United States or American | 4,382 | 13.3 | |
| Same state | 6,332 | 20.5 | Welsh | 124 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,501 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 86 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 801 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 7,769 | 23.5 | |
| 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)
