
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hunt 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 | 76,596 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,088 | 100.0 | Native | 72,995 | 95.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,309 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 72,553 | 94.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,097 | 5.2 | State of residence | 54,952 | 71.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 9,498 | 45.0 | Different state | 17,601 | 23.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 4,836 | 22.9 | Born outside United States | 442 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 4,348 | 20.6 | Foreign born | 3,601 | 4.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,051 | 2.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 967 | 1.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 48,548 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,634 | 3.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,505 | 7.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,729 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 16,655 | 34.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,601 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 10,700 | 22.0 | Europe | 267 | 7.4 | |
| Associate degree | 1,821 | 3.8 | Asia | 417 | 11.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 5,206 | 10.7 | Africa | 28 | 0.8 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 2,932 | 6.0 | Oceania | 21 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 2,760 | 76.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.9 | (X) | Northern America | 108 | 3.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 71,535 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 59,935 | 100.0 | English only | 65,213 | 91.2 | |
| Never married | 12,667 | 21.1 | Language other than English | 6,322 | 8.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 35,512 | 59.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,939 | 4.1 | |
| Separated | 1,273 | 2.1 | Spanish | 5,404 | 7.6 | |
| Widowed | 4,407 | 7.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,701 | 3.8 | |
| Female | 3,498 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 564 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 6,076 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 114 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 3,252 | 5.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 314 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 116 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 76,596 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,005 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 64,208 | 83.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,029 | 51.3 | Arab | 80 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 272 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 73 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 56,268 | 100.0 | Dutch | 1,108 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 8,936 | 15.9 | English | 7,201 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,444 | 1.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 294 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,456 | 8.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 18,525 | 100.0 | Greek | 42 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,769 | 9.5 | Hungarian | 124 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 42,948 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 8,087 | 10.6 | |
| With a disability | 10,114 | 23.5 | Italian | 980 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 57.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 32,834 | 76.5 | Norwegian | 326 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 75.9 | (X) | Polish | 401 | 0.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 9,324 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 30 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 4,505 | 48.3 | Russian | 117 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,521 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,153 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 14 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 71,535 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 180 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 36,630 | 51.2 | Swedish | 303 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 33,642 | 47.0 | Swiss | 101 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 14,901 | 20.8 | Ukrainian | 29 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 18,741 | 26.2 | United States or American | 11,589 | 15.1 | |
| Same state | 14,672 | 20.5 | Welsh | 465 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 4,069 | 5.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 127 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,263 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 21,690 | 28.3 | |
| 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. | ||||||
- 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)

