
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Frio 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 | 16,252 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,659 | 100.0 | Native | 15,306 | 94.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 323 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 15,170 | 93.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 349 | 7.5 | State of residence | 13,211 | 81.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,153 | 46.2 | Different state | 1,959 | 12.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,250 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 136 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 584 | 12.5 | Foreign born | 946 | 5.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 229 | 1.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 440 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 9,807 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 506 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,244 | 22.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,907 | 19.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,786 | 28.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 946 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,696 | 17.3 | Europe | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Associate degree | 346 | 3.5 | Asia | 23 | 2.4 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 638 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 190 | 1.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 913 | 96.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 57.7 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 15,018 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,343 | 100.0 | English only | 5,824 | 38.8 | |
| Never married | 2,686 | 21.8 | Language other than English | 9,194 | 61.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,530 | 61.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,408 | 22.7 | |
| Separated | 377 | 3.1 | Spanish | 9,174 | 61.1 | |
| Widowed | 792 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,403 | 22.7 | |
| Female | 687 | 5.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Divorced | 958 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 468 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 16,252 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 546 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,656 | 77.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 361 | 66.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 17 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,572 | 100.0 | Dutch | 35 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 886 | 7.7 | English | 385 | 2.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 93 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 614 | 3.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,150 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 321 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 7,049 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 361 | 2.2 | |
| With a disability | 1,772 | 25.1 | Italian | 31 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 48.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 5,277 | 74.9 | Norwegian | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 71.2 | (X) | Polish | 27 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,699 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 819 | 48.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 212 | 1.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 59 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 15,018 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,719 | 64.7 | Swedish | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,209 | 34.7 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 3,732 | 24.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,477 | 9.8 | United States or American | 554 | 3.4 | |
| Same state | 1,254 | 8.3 | Welsh | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 223 | 1.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 90 | 0.6 | Other ancestries | 10,198 | 62.7 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

