
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Saba 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 | 6,186 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,514 | 100.0 | Native | 5,843 | 94.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 49 | 3.2 | Born in United States | 5,841 | 94.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 4.6 | State of residence | 5,056 | 81.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 783 | 51.7 | Different state | 785 | 12.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 476 | 31.4 | Born outside United States | 2 | 0.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 136 | 9.0 | Foreign born | 343 | 5.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 184 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 109 | 1.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,997 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 234 | 3.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 604 | 15.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 595 | 14.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,246 | 31.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 343 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 808 | 20.2 | Europe | 9 | 2.6 | |
| Associate degree | 111 | 2.8 | Asia | 21 | 6.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 422 | 10.6 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 211 | 5.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 313 | 91.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 70.0 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 5,869 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,952 | 100.0 | English only | 4,720 | 80.4 | |
| Never married | 652 | 13.2 | Language other than English | 1,149 | 19.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 3,296 | 66.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 411 | 7.0 | |
| Separated | 93 | 1.9 | Spanish | 1,090 | 18.6 | |
| Widowed | 513 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 382 | 6.5 | |
| Female | 432 | 8.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Divorced | 398 | 8.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 191 | 3.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 36 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 20 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 6,186 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 150 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,957 | 80.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 79 | 52.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 17 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 4,461 | 100.0 | Dutch | 88 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 604 | 13.5 | English | 573 | 9.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 63 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 14 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 556 | 9.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,293 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 85 | 6.6 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,882 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 493 | 8.0 | |
| With a disability | 556 | 19.3 | Italian | 78 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 47.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,326 | 80.7 | Norwegian | 20 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 80.0 | (X) | Polish | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,166 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 508 | 43.6 | Russian | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 166 | 2.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 108 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 5,869 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,286 | 56.0 | Swedish | 15 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 2,543 | 43.3 | Swiss | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,246 | 21.2 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,297 | 22.1 | United States or American | 1,023 | 16.5 | |
| Same state | 1,162 | 19.8 | Welsh | 33 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 135 | 2.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 40 | 0.7 | Other ancestries | 1,685 | 27.2 | |
| 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)

