
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Stephens 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 | 9,674 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 2,381 | 100.0 | Native | 9,032 | 93.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 91 | 3.8 | Born in United States | 8,971 | 92.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 4.0 | State of residence | 7,273 | 75.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,180 | 49.6 | Different state | 1,698 | 17.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 669 | 28.1 | Born outside United States | 61 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 346 | 14.5 | Foreign born | 642 | 6.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 359 | 3.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 159 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,471 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 483 | 5.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 610 | 9.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,181 | 18.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,898 | 29.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 642 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,561 | 24.1 | Europe | 7 | 1.1 | |
| Associate degree | 357 | 5.5 | Asia | 65 | 10.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 520 | 8.0 | Africa | 6 | 0.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 344 | 5.3 | Oceania | 7 | 1.1 | |
| Latin America | 543 | 84.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 72.3 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 2.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 9,148 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 7,787 | 100.0 | English only | 7,938 | 86.8 | |
| Never married | 1,309 | 16.8 | Language other than English | 1,210 | 13.2 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,762 | 61.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 486 | 5.3 | |
| Separated | 171 | 2.2 | Spanish | 1,102 | 12.0 | |
| Widowed | 614 | 7.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 457 | 5.0 | |
| Female | 474 | 6.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 80 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 931 | 12.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 22 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 459 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 9,674 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 171 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 7,602 | 78.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 100 | 58.5 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 26 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,315 | 100.0 | Dutch | 259 | 2.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,108 | 15.1 | English | 820 | 8.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 226 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 25 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 803 | 8.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 2,160 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 219 | 10.1 | Hungarian | 20 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 4,752 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 914 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 1,232 | 25.9 | Italian | 36 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 58.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,520 | 74.1 | Norwegian | 16 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 73.8 | (X) | Polish | 40 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,586 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 702 | 44.3 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 161 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 58 | 0.6 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 9,148 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 5,274 | 57.7 | Swedish | 24 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,692 | 40.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 1,824 | 19.9 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 1,868 | 20.4 | United States or American | 1,393 | 14.4 | |
| Same state | 1,417 | 15.5 | Welsh | 21 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 451 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 52 | 0.5 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 182 | 2.0 | Other ancestries | 2,702 | 27.9 | |
| 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
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