DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Monclova township
[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 6,780 100.0
      enrolled in school 1,778 100.0   Native 6,641 97.9
Nursery school, preschool 159 8.9       Born in United States 6,641 97.9
Kindergarten 89 5.0           State of residence 5,402 79.7
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 802 45.1           Different state 1,239 18.3
High school (grades 9-12) 436 24.5       Born outside United States 0 0.0
College or graduate school 292 16.4   Foreign born 139 2.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 39 0.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 83 1.2
  Population 25 years and over 4,510 100.0       Not a citizen 56 0.8
Less than 9th grade 84 1.9        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 285 6.3   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 1,180 26.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 139 100.0
Some college, no degree 926 20.5   Europe 19 13.7
Associate degree 487 10.8   Asia 55 39.6
Bachelor's degree 1,076 23.9   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 472 10.5   Oceania 8 5.8
        Latin America 30 21.6
Percent high school graduate or higher 91.8 (X)   Northern America 27 19.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 34.3 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 6,325 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 5,286 100.0   English only 6,105 96.5
Never married 1,074 20.3   Language other than English 220 3.5
Now married, except separated 3,452 65.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 89 1.4
Separated 52 1.0   Spanish 103 1.6
Widowed 339 6.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 57 0.9
 Female 279 5.3   Other Indo-European languages 97 1.5
Divorced 369 7.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 24 0.4
 Female 186 3.5   Asian and Pacific Island languages 0 0.0
                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 6,780 100.0
           under 18 years 53 100.0     Total ancestries reported 7,707 113.7
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 11 20.8   Arab 48 0.7
        Czech¹ 47 0.7
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 4,972 100.0   Dutch 113 1.7
Civilian veterans 551 11.1   English 738 10.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 367 5.4
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 40 0.6
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 2,570 37.9
     Population 5 to 20 years 1,585 100.0   Greek 40 0.6
With a disability 149 9.4   Hungarian 149 2.2
     Population 21 to 64 years 3,972 100.0   Irish¹ 812 12.0
With a disability 397 10.0   Italian 296 4.4
 Percent employed 72.8 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 3,575 90.0   Norwegian 31 0.5
 Percent employed 82.7 (X)   Polish 823 12.1
     Population 65 years and over 573 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 212 37.0   Russian 7 0.1
        Scotch-Irish 52 0.8
        Scottish 173 2.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 8 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 6,325 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 3,051 48.2   Swedish 75 1.1
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 3,225 51.0   Swiss 67 1.0
 Same county 2,200 34.8   Ukrainian 0 0.0
 Different county 1,025 16.2   United States or American 447 6.6
  Same state 603 9.5   Welsh 6 0.1
  Different state 422 6.7   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 8 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 49 0.8   Other ancestries 790 11.7
 
Date: August 27, 2004
 
-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.