
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Reeves 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 | 13,137 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,606 | 100.0 | Native | 11,206 | 85.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 193 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 11,101 | 84.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 252 | 7.0 | State of residence | 10,132 | 77.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,815 | 50.3 | Different state | 969 | 7.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,049 | 29.1 | Born outside United States | 105 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 297 | 8.2 | Foreign born | 1,931 | 14.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 285 | 2.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 815 | 6.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,692 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,116 | 8.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,482 | 32.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,623 | 21.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,912 | 24.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,931 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 916 | 11.9 | Europe | 17 | 0.9 | |
| Associate degree | 144 | 1.9 | Asia | 86 | 4.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 374 | 4.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 241 | 3.1 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,828 | 94.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 46.6 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 8.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 12,205 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 9,968 | 100.0 | English only | 3,969 | 32.5 | |
| Never married | 2,051 | 20.6 | Language other than English | 8,236 | 67.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,205 | 62.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,578 | 29.3 | |
| Separated | 312 | 3.1 | Spanish | 8,137 | 66.7 | |
| Widowed | 759 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,552 | 29.1 | |
| Female | 606 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Divorced | 641 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 386 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 86 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 13,137 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 573 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,830 | 82.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 326 | 56.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 9,225 | 100.0 | Dutch | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 694 | 7.5 | English | 316 | 2.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 126 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 262 | 2.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,475 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 134 | 3.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 6,113 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 277 | 2.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,438 | 23.5 | Italian | 18 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 52.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,675 | 76.5 | Norwegian | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 61.1 | (X) | Polish | 13 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,502 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 21 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 808 | 53.8 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 105 | 0.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 50 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 12,205 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,955 | 65.2 | Swedish | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 4,074 | 33.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,195 | 18.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,879 | 15.4 | United States or American | 395 | 3.0 | |
| Same state | 1,446 | 11.8 | Welsh | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 433 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 176 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 9,177 | 69.9 | |
| 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)

