DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Fort Bend 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 | 354,452 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 114,365 | 100.0 | Native | 289,574 | 81.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 8,473 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 285,645 | 80.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 6,535 | 5.7 | State of residence | 199,172 | 56.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 54,650 | 47.8 | Different state | 86,473 | 24.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 26,670 | 23.3 | Born outside United States | 3,929 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 18,037 | 15.8 | Foreign born | 64,878 | 18.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 24,187 | 6.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 30,828 | 8.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 214,461 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 34,050 | 9.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 15,424 | 7.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 18,179 | 8.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 41,684 | 19.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 64,878 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 46,716 | 21.8 | Europe | 4,270 | 6.6 | |
| Associate degree | 13,277 | 6.2 | Asia | 29,944 | 46.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 53,974 | 25.2 | Africa | 3,471 | 5.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 25,207 | 11.8 | Oceania | 91 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 25,924 | 40.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.3 | (X) | Northern America | 1,178 | 1.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 36.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 327,666 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 260,929 | 100.0 | English only | 227,070 | 69.3 | |
| Never married | 60,328 | 23.1 | Language other than English | 100,596 | 30.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 166,979 | 64.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 37,065 | 11.3 | |
| Separated | 4,634 | 1.8 | Spanish | 57,612 | 17.6 | |
| Widowed | 9,446 | 3.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 23,062 | 7.0 | |
| Female | 7,782 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 16,603 | 5.1 | |
| Divorced | 19,542 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,125 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 11,781 | 4.5 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 22,409 | 6.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,118 | 2.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 354,452 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 9,729 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 356,548 | 100.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,800 | 39.1 | Arab | 2,816 | 0.8 | |
| Czech¹ | 8,765 | 2.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 984 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 240,802 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,757 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 22,022 | 9.1 | English | 24,428 | 6.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,719 | 2.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,932 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 38,188 | 10.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 99,468 | 100.0 | Greek | 810 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 6,125 | 6.2 | Hungarian | 769 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 204,007 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 23,557 | 6.6 | |
| With a disability | 32,789 | 16.1 | Italian | 8,585 | 2.4 | |
| Percent employed | 66.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 270 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 171,218 | 83.9 | Norwegian | 1,997 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 76.9 | (X) | Polish | 6,168 | 1.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 19,187 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 369 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 7,810 | 40.7 | Russian | 1,325 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,696 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,091 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 250 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 327,666 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4,953 | 1.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 170,293 | 52.0 | Swedish | 1,973 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 144,594 | 44.1 | Swiss | 640 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 52,477 | 16.0 | Ukrainian | 273 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 92,117 | 28.1 | United States or American | 18,949 | 5.3 | |
| Same state | 67,889 | 20.7 | Welsh | 1,304 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 24,228 | 7.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2,333 | 0.7 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12,779 | 3.9 | Other ancestries | 182,647 | 51.5 | |
| 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)
