
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Kinney 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 | 3,379 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 807 | 100.0 | Native | 2,982 | 88.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 51 | 6.3 | Born in United States | 2,947 | 87.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 5.0 | State of residence | 2,268 | 67.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 443 | 54.9 | Different state | 679 | 20.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 216 | 26.8 | Born outside United States | 35 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 57 | 7.1 | Foreign born | 397 | 11.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 94 | 2.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 191 | 5.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,335 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 206 | 6.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 510 | 21.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 264 | 11.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 637 | 27.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 397 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 414 | 17.7 | Europe | 24 | 6.0 | |
| Associate degree | 96 | 4.1 | Asia | 17 | 4.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 301 | 12.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 113 | 4.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 342 | 86.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 66.9 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 3.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 3,173 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,674 | 100.0 | English only | 1,674 | 52.8 | |
| Never married | 462 | 17.3 | Language other than English | 1,499 | 47.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,703 | 63.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 616 | 19.4 | |
| Separated | 59 | 2.2 | Spanish | 1,457 | 45.9 | |
| Widowed | 257 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 609 | 19.2 | |
| Female | 171 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 37 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 193 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 76 | 2.8 | 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 | 3,379 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 106 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 3,293 | 97.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 41 | 38.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 6 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,504 | 100.0 | Dutch | 27 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 529 | 21.1 | English | 285 | 8.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 68 | 2.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 22 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 361 | 10.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 743 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 47 | 6.3 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,567 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 211 | 6.2 | |
| With a disability | 338 | 21.6 | Italian | 62 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 38.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,229 | 78.4 | Norwegian | 28 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 61.4 | (X) | Polish | 33 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 833 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 334 | 40.1 | Russian | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 75 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 48 | 1.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 3,173 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,855 | 58.5 | Swedish | 43 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,275 | 40.2 | Swiss | 16 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 436 | 13.7 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 839 | 26.4 | United States or American | 229 | 6.8 | |
| Same state | 571 | 18.0 | Welsh | 7 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 268 | 8.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 43 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 1,733 | 51.3 | |
| 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)

