DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Travis 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 | 812,280 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 235,906 | 100.0 | Native | 689,659 | 84.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 14,554 | 6.2 | Born in United States | 677,214 | 83.4 | |
| Kindergarten | 11,981 | 5.1 | State of residence | 450,296 | 55.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 84,434 | 35.8 | Different state | 226,918 | 27.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 37,276 | 15.8 | Born outside United States | 12,445 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 87,661 | 37.2 | Foreign born | 122,621 | 15.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 72,075 | 8.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 32,375 | 4.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 501,361 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 90,246 | 11.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 37,232 | 7.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 39,554 | 7.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 86,924 | 17.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 122,621 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 107,713 | 21.5 | Europe | 9,257 | 7.5 | |
| Associate degree | 26,272 | 5.2 | Asia | 29,324 | 23.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 130,784 | 26.1 | Africa | 2,715 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 72,882 | 14.5 | Oceania | 373 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 78,619 | 64.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2,333 | 1.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 40.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 753,786 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 648,678 | 100.0 | English only | 537,622 | 71.3 | |
| Never married | 234,635 | 36.2 | Language other than English | 216,164 | 28.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 307,820 | 47.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 94,350 | 12.5 | |
| Separated | 12,194 | 1.9 | Spanish | 168,283 | 22.3 | |
| Widowed | 23,408 | 3.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 77,954 | 10.3 | |
| Female | 19,347 | 3.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 19,724 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 70,621 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,534 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 40,601 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 24,443 | 3.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10,881 | 1.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 812,280 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 14,384 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 843,598 | 103.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 6,230 | 43.3 | Arab | 3,694 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 10,477 | 1.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 3,172 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 619,203 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,654 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 61,560 | 9.9 | English | 76,635 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 22,683 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,235 | 0.5 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 113,279 | 13.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 180,630 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,996 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 14,222 | 7.9 | Hungarian | 2,137 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 513,232 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 72,924 | 9.0 | |
| With a disability | 75,914 | 14.8 | Italian | 21,083 | 2.6 | |
| Percent employed | 66.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,060 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 437,318 | 85.2 | Norwegian | 7,347 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 80.1 | (X) | Polish | 12,494 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 52,297 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,137 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 21,378 | 40.9 | Russian | 4,812 | 0.6 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 20,685 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 19,461 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 739 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 753,786 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 5,342 | 0.7 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 283,732 | 37.6 | Swedish | 10,530 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 425,786 | 56.5 | Swiss | 2,265 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 220,931 | 29.3 | Ukrainian | 1,080 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 204,855 | 27.2 | United States or American | 37,168 | 4.6 | |
| Same state | 127,779 | 17.0 | Welsh | 5,504 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 77,076 | 10.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,534 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 44,268 | 5.9 | Other ancestries | 371,471 | 45.7 | |
| 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)
