
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sabine 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 | 10,469 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,043 | 100.0 | Native | 10,352 | 98.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 108 | 5.3 | Born in United States | 10,326 | 98.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 99 | 4.8 | State of residence | 7,595 | 72.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,071 | 52.4 | Different state | 2,731 | 26.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 577 | 28.2 | Born outside United States | 26 | 0.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 188 | 9.2 | Foreign born | 117 | 1.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 35 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 45 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 7,676 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 72 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 761 | 9.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,353 | 17.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 2,893 | 37.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 117 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,607 | 20.9 | Europe | 42 | 35.9 | |
| Associate degree | 246 | 3.2 | Asia | 23 | 19.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 508 | 6.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 308 | 4.0 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 47 | 40.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.5 | (X) | Northern America | 5 | 4.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,921 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,705 | 100.0 | English only | 9,606 | 96.8 | |
| Never married | 1,160 | 13.3 | Language other than English | 315 | 3.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 5,575 | 64.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 131 | 1.3 | |
| Separated | 132 | 1.5 | Spanish | 180 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 914 | 10.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 99 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 735 | 8.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 110 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 924 | 10.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 425 | 4.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 25 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 10,469 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 265 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 8,372 | 80.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 217 | 81.9 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 38 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 8,255 | 100.0 | Dutch | 172 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,520 | 18.4 | English | 1,115 | 10.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 484 | 4.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 85 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 702 | 6.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,899 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 158 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 7 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,404 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,263 | 12.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,344 | 24.9 | Italian | 87 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 39.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 4,060 | 75.1 | Norwegian | 42 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 59.5 | (X) | Polish | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,487 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,092 | 43.9 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 256 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 97 | 0.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,921 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 23 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 6,178 | 62.3 | Swedish | 76 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,694 | 37.2 | Swiss | 18 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 1,459 | 14.7 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 2,235 | 22.5 | United States or American | 1,902 | 18.2 | |
| Same state | 1,613 | 16.3 | Welsh | 33 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 622 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 49 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 1,935 | 18.5 | |
| 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
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