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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hays 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 97,589 100.0
      enrolled in school 35,718 100.0   Native 92,151 94.4
Nursery school, preschool 1,704 4.8       Born in United States 90,995 93.2
Kindergarten 1,265 3.5           State of residence 68,937 70.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 10,854 30.4           Different state 22,058 22.6
High school (grades 9-12) 5,621 15.7       Born outside United States 1,156 1.2
College or graduate school 16,274 45.6   Foreign born 5,438 5.6
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 2,334 2.4
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 1,831 1.9
  Population 25 years and over 53,635 100.0       Not a citizen 3,607 3.7
Less than 9th grade 3,898 7.3        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 4,314 8.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 12,303 22.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 5,438 100.0
Some college, no degree 13,740 25.6   Europe 751 13.8
Associate degree 2,577 4.8   Asia 601 11.1
Bachelor's degree 10,918 20.4   Africa 84 1.5
Graduate or professional degree 5,885 11.0   Oceania 46 0.8
        Latin America 3,877 71.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 84.7 (X)   Northern America 79 1.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 31.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 91,596 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 78,221 100.0   English only 70,395 76.9
Never married 27,495 35.2   Language other than English 21,201 23.1
Now married, except separated 40,222 51.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6,527 7.1
Separated 1,044 1.3   Spanish 19,336 21.1
Widowed 3,157 4.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 6,057 6.6
 Female 2,391 3.1   Other Indo-European languages 1,250 1.4
Divorced 6,303 8.1           Speak English less than '"very well"' 225 0.2
 Female 3,574 4.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 523 0.6
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 210 0.2
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 97,589 100.0
           under 18 years 1,813 100.0     Total ancestries reported 97,432 99.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 685 37.8   Arab 228 0.2
        Czech¹ 1,417 1.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 282 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 73,698 100.0   Dutch 1,129 1.2
Civilian veterans 8,315 11.3   English 9,163 9.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 3,032 3.1
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 429 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 16,807 17.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 26,074 100.0   Greek 142 0.1
With a disability 2,305 8.8   Hungarian 170 0.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 57,111 100.0   Irish¹ 9,021 9.2
With a disability 8,003 14.0   Italian 2,240 2.3
 Percent employed 63.7 (X)   Lithuanian 111 0.1
No disability 49,108 86.0   Norwegian 848 0.9
 Percent employed 79.0 (X)   Polish 1,572 1.6
     Population 65 years and over 7,100 100.0   Portuguese 54 0.1
With a disability 2,911 41.0   Russian 290 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 2,995 3.1
        Scottish 2,309 2.4
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 101 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 91,596 100.0   Subsaharan African 363 0.4
Same house in 1995 37,907 41.4   Swedish 1,105 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 52,191 57.0   Swiss 141 0.1
 Same county 14,086 15.4   Ukrainian 129 0.1
 Different county 38,105 41.6   United States or American 5,162 5.3
  Same state 32,472 35.5   Welsh 764 0.8
  Different state 5,633 6.1   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 71 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 1,498 1.6   Other ancestries 37,357 38.3
 
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.
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