DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Zavala 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 | 11,600 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,883 | 100.0 | Native | 10,002 | 86.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 276 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 9,886 | 85.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 303 | 7.8 | State of residence | 8,746 | 75.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,868 | 48.1 | Different state | 1,140 | 9.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 976 | 25.1 | Born outside United States | 116 | 1.0 | |
| College or graduate school | 460 | 11.8 | Foreign born | 1,598 | 13.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 396 | 3.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 809 | 7.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 6,371 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 789 | 6.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,477 | 38.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,129 | 17.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,295 | 20.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,598 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 755 | 11.9 | Europe | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Associate degree | 231 | 3.6 | Asia | 17 | 1.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 255 | 4.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 229 | 3.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,581 | 98.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 43.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 7.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 10,615 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 8,317 | 100.0 | English only | 1,617 | 15.2 | |
| Never married | 2,146 | 25.8 | Language other than English | 8,998 | 84.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 4,620 | 55.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,442 | 41.8 | |
| Separated | 326 | 3.9 | Spanish | 8,966 | 84.5 | |
| Widowed | 640 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,424 | 41.7 | |
| Female | 547 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Divorced | 585 | 7.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Female | 340 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 17 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 11,600 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 467 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 10,243 | 88.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 220 | 47.1 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 7,671 | 100.0 | Dutch | 12 | 0.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 363 | 4.7 | English | 129 | 1.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 42 | 0.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 36 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 246 | 2.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,564 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 353 | 9.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 5,364 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 53 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,649 | 30.7 | Italian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 44.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 3,715 | 69.3 | Norwegian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 53.9 | (X) | Polish | 11 | 0.1 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,336 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 777 | 58.2 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 16 | 0.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 22 | 0.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 10,615 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 3 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 7,094 | 66.8 | Swedish | 30 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 3,121 | 29.4 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,170 | 20.4 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 951 | 9.0 | United States or American | 160 | 1.4 | |
| Same state | 561 | 5.3 | Welsh | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Different state | 390 | 3.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 8 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 400 | 3.8 | Other ancestries | 9,469 | 81.6 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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