
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Nacogdoches 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 | 59,203 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 21,373 | 100.0 | Native | 55,523 | 93.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,106 | 5.2 | Born in United States | 55,214 | 93.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 811 | 3.8 | State of residence | 45,624 | 77.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 6,549 | 30.6 | Different state | 9,590 | 16.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,332 | 15.6 | Born outside United States | 309 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 9,575 | 44.8 | Foreign born | 3,680 | 6.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 2,096 | 3.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 871 | 1.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 33,175 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,809 | 4.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,461 | 10.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 5,280 | 15.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,053 | 27.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 3,680 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,704 | 20.2 | Europe | 135 | 3.7 | |
| Associate degree | 1,119 | 3.4 | Asia | 315 | 8.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 4,527 | 13.6 | Africa | 13 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,031 | 9.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 3,194 | 86.8 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.7 | (X) | Northern America | 23 | 0.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,391 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 47,393 | 100.0 | English only | 48,950 | 88.4 | |
| Never married | 14,428 | 30.4 | Language other than English | 6,441 | 11.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 24,798 | 52.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,652 | 6.6 | |
| Separated | 1,035 | 2.2 | Spanish | 5,777 | 10.4 | |
| Widowed | 3,076 | 6.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,474 | 6.3 | |
| Female | 2,593 | 5.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 430 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 4,056 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 120 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 2,444 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 204 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 58 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 59,203 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,217 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 48,887 | 82.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 720 | 59.2 | Arab | 52 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 300 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 98 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 45,052 | 100.0 | Dutch | 469 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,803 | 10.7 | English | 4,877 | 8.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,378 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 206 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,229 | 7.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 15,907 | 100.0 | Greek | 21 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,298 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 23 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 32,031 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,159 | 8.7 | |
| With a disability | 6,568 | 20.5 | Italian | 695 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 54.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 25,463 | 79.5 | Norwegian | 262 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 73.0 | (X) | Polish | 361 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,427 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 3,003 | 46.7 | Russian | 76 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,246 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 687 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 46 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,391 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 296 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 27,495 | 49.6 | Swedish | 336 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 26,730 | 48.3 | Swiss | 84 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 12,025 | 21.7 | Ukrainian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 14,705 | 26.5 | United States or American | 6,555 | 11.1 | |
| Same state | 12,320 | 22.2 | Welsh | 243 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,385 | 4.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 68 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,166 | 2.1 | Other ancestries | 21,100 | 35.6 | |
| 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)

