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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hemphill 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 3,351 100.0
      enrolled in school 908 100.0   Native 3,133 93.5
Nursery school, preschool 65 7.2       Born in United States 3,126 93.3
Kindergarten 30 3.3           State of residence 2,133 63.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 448 49.3           Different state 993 29.6
High school (grades 9-12) 306 33.7       Born outside United States 7 0.2
College or graduate school 59 6.5   Foreign born 218 6.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 84 2.5
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 70 2.1
  Population 25 years and over 2,190 100.0       Not a citizen 148 4.4
Less than 9th grade 216 9.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 224 10.2   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 639 29.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 218 100.0
Some college, no degree 642 29.3   Europe 10 4.6
Associate degree 77 3.5   Asia 0 0.0
Bachelor's degree 310 14.2   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 82 3.7   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 207 95.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 79.9 (X)   Northern America 1 0.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.9 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 3,156 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 2,667 100.0   English only 2,736 86.7
Never married 527 19.8   Language other than English 420 13.3
Now married, except separated 1,752 65.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 189 6.0
Separated 28 1.0   Spanish 409 13.0
Widowed 166 6.2           Speak English less than '"very well"' 187 5.9
 Female 149 5.6   Other Indo-European languages 9 0.3
Divorced 194 7.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2 0.1
 Female 101 3.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 3,351 100.0
           under 18 years 39 100.0     Total ancestries reported 2,711 80.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 35 89.7   Arab 2 0.1
        Czech¹ 7 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 6 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 2,425 100.0   Dutch 27 0.8
Civilian veterans 289 11.9   English 300 9.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 58 1.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 12 0.4
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 360 10.7
     Population 5 to 20 years 766 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 33 4.3   Hungarian 0 0.0
     Population 21 to 64 years 1,793 100.0   Irish¹ 355 10.6
With a disability 227 12.7   Italian 21 0.6
 Percent employed 54.6 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 1,566 87.3   Norwegian 25 0.7
 Percent employed 79.5 (X)   Polish 26 0.8
     Population 65 years and over 453 100.0   Portuguese 3 0.1
With a disability 147 32.5   Russian 0 0.0
        Scotch-Irish 110 3.3
        Scottish 50 1.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 0 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 3,156 100.0   Subsaharan African 6 0.2
Same house in 1995 1,907 60.4   Swedish 17 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 1,219 38.6   Swiss 6 0.2
 Same county 579 18.3   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 640 20.3   United States or American 375 11.2
  Same state 435 13.8   Welsh 29 0.9
  Different state 205 6.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 12 0.4
Elsewhere in 1995 30 1.0   Other ancestries 904 27.0
 
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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