
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Schleicher 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 | 2,935 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 798 | 100.0 | Native | 2,527 | 86.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 54 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 2,516 | 85.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 5.8 | State of residence | 2,283 | 77.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 383 | 48.0 | Different state | 233 | 7.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 240 | 30.1 | Born outside United States | 11 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 75 | 9.4 | Foreign born | 408 | 13.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 132 | 4.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 155 | 5.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,913 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 253 | 8.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 419 | 21.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 339 | 17.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 393 | 20.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 408 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 353 | 18.5 | Europe | 7 | 1.7 | |
| Associate degree | 73 | 3.8 | Asia | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 262 | 13.7 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 74 | 3.9 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 401 | 98.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 60.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,750 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 2,287 | 100.0 | English only | 1,634 | 59.4 | |
| Never married | 399 | 17.4 | Language other than English | 1,116 | 40.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 1,479 | 64.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 488 | 17.7 | |
| Separated | 54 | 2.4 | Spanish | 1,098 | 39.9 | |
| Widowed | 190 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 487 | 17.7 | |
| Female | 147 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 13 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 165 | 7.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 93 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,935 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 70 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,602 | 88.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 39 | 55.7 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 25 | 0.9 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 2,122 | 100.0 | Dutch | 44 | 1.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 190 | 9.0 | English | 218 | 7.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 25 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 290 | 9.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 742 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 57 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,520 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 250 | 8.5 | |
| With a disability | 357 | 23.5 | Italian | 10 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 61.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 1,163 | 76.5 | Norwegian | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 79.9 | (X) | Polish | 9 | 0.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 442 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 240 | 54.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 41 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 34 | 1.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,750 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,787 | 65.0 | Swedish | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 931 | 33.9 | Swiss | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 490 | 17.8 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 441 | 16.0 | United States or American | 345 | 11.8 | |
| Same state | 376 | 13.7 | Welsh | 6 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 65 | 2.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 32 | 1.2 | Other ancestries | 1,293 | 44.1 | |
| 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)

