
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lipscomb 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 | 3,057 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 737 | 100.0 | Native | 2,700 | 88.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 36 | 4.9 | Born in United States | 2,691 | 88.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 4.6 | State of residence | 1,302 | 42.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 399 | 54.1 | Different state | 1,389 | 45.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 231 | 31.3 | Born outside United States | 9 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 37 | 5.0 | Foreign born | 357 | 11.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 185 | 6.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 85 | 2.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 2,047 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 272 | 8.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 277 | 13.5 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 244 | 11.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 601 | 29.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 357 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 488 | 23.8 | Europe | 6 | 1.7 | |
| Associate degree | 50 | 2.4 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 281 | 13.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 106 | 5.2 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 345 | 96.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.5 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 1.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 18.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,875 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,402 | 100.0 | English only | 2,341 | 81.4 | |
| Never married | 395 | 16.4 | Language other than English | 534 | 18.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,548 | 64.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 281 | 9.8 | |
| Separated | 27 | 1.1 | Spanish | 493 | 17.1 | |
| Widowed | 233 | 9.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 281 | 9.8 | |
| Female | 207 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 38 | 1.3 | |
| Divorced | 199 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 107 | 4.5 | 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 | 3,057 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 41 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,778 | 90.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 36 | 87.8 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 33 | 1.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,218 | 100.0 | Dutch | 72 | 2.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 262 | 11.8 | English | 328 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 73 | 2.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 623 | 20.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 737 | 100.0 | Greek | 4 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 40 | 5.4 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,567 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 277 | 9.1 | |
| With a disability | 254 | 16.2 | Italian | 19 | 0.6 | |
| Percent employed | 51.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,313 | 83.8 | Norwegian | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 75.1 | (X) | Polish | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 525 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 196 | 37.3 | Russian | 21 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 107 | 3.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 49 | 1.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,875 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,684 | 58.6 | Swedish | 16 | 0.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,122 | 39.0 | Swiss | 8 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 427 | 14.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 695 | 24.2 | United States or American | 283 | 9.3 | |
| Same state | 393 | 13.7 | Welsh | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 302 | 10.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 69 | 2.4 | Other ancestries | 841 | 27.5 | |
| 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)

