Alvarado, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4802260, place: Alvarado city, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 805 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 44 (5.47%)
Kindergarten: 43 (5.34%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 418 (51.93%)
High school (grades 9-12): 232 (28.82%)
College or graduate school: 68 (8.45%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 2,041 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 307 (15.04%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 452 (22.15%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 654 (32.04%)
Some college, no degree: 390 (19.11%)
Associate degree: 86 (4.21%)
Bachelor's degree: 108 (5.29%)
Graduate or professional degree: 44 (2.16%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 62.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 7.4%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 2,524 (100%)
Never married: 539 (21.35%)
Now married, except separated: 1,324 (52.46%)
Separated: 85 (3.37%)
Total Widowed: 242 (9.59%)
Widowed Female: 194 (7.69%)
Total Divorced: 334 (13.23%)
Divorced Female: 147 (5.82%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 67 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 27 (40.3%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 2,335 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 310 (13.28%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 791 (100%)
--With a disability: 63 (7.96%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,673 (100%)
--With a disability: 428 (25.58%)
----Percent employed: 66.1%
--No disability: 1,245 (74.42%)
----Percent employed: 78.9%
Population 65 years and over: 414 (100%)
--With a disability: 224 (54.11%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,984 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,286 (43.1%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,649 (55.26%)
--Same county: 744 (24.93%)
--Different county: 905 (30.33%)
----Same state: 740 (24.8%)
----Different state: 165 (5.53%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 49 (1.64%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 3,192 (100%)
Native: 2,954 (92.54%)
--Born in United States: 2,946 (100%)
----State of residence: 2,321 (72.71%)
----Different state: 625 (19.58%)
--Born outside United States: 8 (0.25%)
Foreign born: 238 (7.46%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 140 (4.39%)
--Naturalized citizen: 100 (3.13%)
--Not a citizen: 138 (4.32%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 238 (100%)
Europe: 20 (8.4%)
Asia: 5 (2.1%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 213 (89.5%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,984 (100%)
English only: 2,435 (81.6%)
Language other than English: 549 (18.4%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 226 (7.57%)
--Spanish: 518 (17.36%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 226 (7.57%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 19 (0.64%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 12 (0.4%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 3,192 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,833% (88.75%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 4 (0.13%)
Danish: 4 (0.13%)
Dutch: 54 (1.69%)
English: 272 (8.52%)
French (except Basque): 80 (2.51%)
French Canadian: 44 (1.38%)
German: 263 (8.24%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 408 (12.78%)
Italian: 5 (0.16%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 4 (0.13%)
Polish: 15 (0.47%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 10 (0.31%)
Scotch-Irish: 63 (1.97%)
Scottish: 13 (0.41%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 5 (0.16%)
Swedish: 4 (0.13%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 375 (11.75%)
Welsh: 13 (0.41%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 21 (0.66%)
Other ancestries: 1,176 (36.84%)

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