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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Hidalgo County, New Mexico

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

1,699

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

84

4.9

Kindergarten

141

8.3

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

852

50.1

High school (grades 9-12)

506

29.8

College or graduate school

116

6.8

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

3,596

100.0

Less than 9th grade

642

17.9

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

480

13.3

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

1,328

36.9

Some college, no degree

696

19.4

Associate degree

94

2.6

Bachelor's degree

224

6.2

Graduate or professional degree

132

3.7

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

68.8

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

9.9

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

4,395

100.0

Never married

1,032

23.5

Now married, except separated

2,446

55.7

Separated

76

1.7

Widowed

317

7.2

Female

227

5.2

Divorced

524

11.9

Female

284

6.5

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

131

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

60

45.8

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

4,045

100.0

Civilian veterans

551

13.6

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

1,652

100.0

With a disability

105

6.4

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

2,982

100.0

With a disability

813

27.3

Percent employed

49.8

(X)

No disability

2,169

72.7

Percent employed

66.0

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

751

100.0

With a disability

398

53.0

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

5,473

100.0

Same house in 1995

3,526

64.4

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

1,834

33.5

Same county

982

17.9

Different county

852

15.6

Same state

233

4.3

Different state

619

11.3

Elsewhere in 1995

113

2.1

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

5,932

100.0

Native

5,275

88.9

Born in United States

5,240

88.3

State of residence

3,210

54.1

Different state

2,030

34.2

Born outside United States

35

0.6

Foreign born

657

11.1

Entered 1990 to March 2000

231

3.9

Naturalized citizen

244

4.1

Not a citizen

413

7.0

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

657

100.0

Europe

13

2.0

Asia

5

0.8

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

639

97.3

Northern America

0

0.0

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

5,473

100.0

English only

3,086

56.4

Language other than English

2,387

43.6

Speak English less than 'very well

856

15.6

Spanish

2,371

43.3

Speak English less than "very well"

850

15.5

Other Indo-European languages

14

0.3

Speak English less than "very well"

4

0.1

Asian and Pacific Island languages

2

0.0

Speak English less than "very well"

2

0.0

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

5,932

100.0

Total ancestries reported

5,597

94.4

Arab

0

0.0

Czech1

13

0.2

Danish

28

0.5

Dutch

11

0.2

English

349

5.9

French (except Basque)1

85

1.4

French Canadian1

7

0.1

German

417

7.0

Greek

2

0.0

Hungarian

0

0.0

Irish1

409

6.9

Italian

56

0.9

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

48

0.8

Polish

8

0.1

Portuguese

0

0.0

Russian

3

0.1

Scotch-Irish

42

0.7

Scottish

68

1.1

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

0

0.0

Swedish

22

0.4

Swiss

2

0.0

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

410

6.9

Welsh

14

0.2

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

3

0.1

Other ancestries

3,600

60.7

(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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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