DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Harris 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 | 3,400,578 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 973,905 | 100.0 | Native | 2,644,030 | 77.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 65,574 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 2,610,546 | 76.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 61,068 | 6.3 | State of residence | 1,861,758 | 54.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 452,161 | 46.4 | Different state | 748,788 | 22.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 208,888 | 21.4 | Born outside United States | 33,484 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 186,214 | 19.1 | Foreign born | 756,548 | 22.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 374,541 | 11.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 223,609 | 6.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,067,399 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 532,939 | 15.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 249,925 | 12.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 274,497 | 13.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 447,295 | 21.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 756,548 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 440,747 | 21.3 | Europe | 36,622 | 4.8 | |
| Associate degree | 98,048 | 4.7 | Asia | 147,894 | 19.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 370,465 | 17.9 | Africa | 22,205 | 2.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 186,422 | 9.0 | Oceania | 1,532 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 540,574 | 71.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.6 | (X) | Northern America | 7,721 | 1.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 26.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,121,999 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,571,113 | 100.0 | English only | 1,992,143 | 63.8 | |
| Never married | 739,160 | 28.7 | Language other than English | 1,129,856 | 36.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,383,476 | 53.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 569,799 | 18.3 | |
| Separated | 75,827 | 2.9 | Spanish | 898,885 | 28.8 | |
| Widowed | 123,280 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 475,797 | 15.2 | |
| Female | 100,562 | 3.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 87,470 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 249,370 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24,665 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 146,705 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 116,285 | 3.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 63,026 | 2.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 3,400,578 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 91,017 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,287,250 | 96.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 39,104 | 43.0 | Arab | 18,043 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 28,024 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6,408 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,416,847 | 100.0 | Dutch | 24,961 | 0.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 219,966 | 9.1 | English | 212,681 | 6.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 82,578 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 15,150 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 289,691 | 8.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 847,336 | 100.0 | Greek | 7,650 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 66,906 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 6,348 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,005,947 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 204,468 | 6.0 | |
| With a disability | 400,956 | 20.0 | Italian | 71,374 | 2.1 | |
| Percent employed | 58.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,485 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 1,604,991 | 80.0 | Norwegian | 16,564 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 73.2 | (X) | Polish | 44,974 | 1.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 241,638 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2,967 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 105,163 | 43.5 | Russian | 13,321 | 0.4 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 46,504 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 43,191 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2,409 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,121,999 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 37,914 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,491,719 | 47.8 | Swedish | 18,644 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,448,771 | 46.4 | Swiss | 5,087 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 1,076,582 | 34.5 | Ukrainian | 3,357 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 372,189 | 11.9 | United States or American | 176,504 | 5.2 | |
| Same state | 190,976 | 6.1 | Welsh | 11,910 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 181,213 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 11,823 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 181,509 | 5.8 | Other ancestries | 1,882,220 | 55.4 | |
| 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)
