
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hill 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 | 32,321 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,820 | 100.0 | Native | 30,412 | 94.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 537 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 30,327 | 93.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 509 | 6.5 | State of residence | 24,722 | 76.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,556 | 45.5 | Different state | 5,605 | 17.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,118 | 27.1 | Born outside United States | 85 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,100 | 14.1 | Foreign born | 1,909 | 5.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,146 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 599 | 1.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 21,209 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,310 | 4.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,021 | 9.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,957 | 18.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 7,059 | 33.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,909 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,431 | 20.9 | Europe | 74 | 3.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,081 | 5.1 | Asia | 49 | 2.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,833 | 8.6 | Africa | 36 | 1.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 827 | 3.9 | Oceania | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 1,703 | 89.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 71.8 | (X) | Northern America | 37 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,127 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,586 | 100.0 | English only | 26,246 | 87.1 | |
| Never married | 4,940 | 19.3 | Language other than English | 3,881 | 12.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,334 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,760 | 5.8 | |
| Separated | 522 | 2.0 | Spanish | 3,506 | 11.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,338 | 9.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,673 | 5.6 | |
| Female | 1,920 | 7.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 302 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 2,452 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 49 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,299 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 64 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 38 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 32,321 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 993 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 26,518 | 82.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 570 | 57.4 | Arab | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,027 | 3.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 24 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,995 | 100.0 | Dutch | 450 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 3,792 | 15.8 | English | 2,657 | 8.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 572 | 1.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 100 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,160 | 9.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,512 | 100.0 | Greek | 29 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 524 | 7.0 | Hungarian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 16,964 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,848 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 4,485 | 26.4 | Italian | 330 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 56.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 8 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 12,479 | 73.6 | Norwegian | 144 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 72.7 | (X) | Polish | 185 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,117 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,307 | 45.1 | Russian | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 560 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 408 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 17 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,127 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 99 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 16,574 | 55.0 | Swedish | 110 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,862 | 42.7 | Swiss | 119 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 6,013 | 20.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,849 | 22.7 | United States or American | 4,652 | 14.4 | |
| Same state | 5,629 | 18.7 | Welsh | 91 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 1,220 | 4.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 691 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 8,841 | 27.4 | |
| 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)

