Comfort, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4816228, place: Comfort CDP, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 744 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 95 (12.77%)
Kindergarten: 61 (8.2%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 332 (44.62%)
High school (grades 9-12): 182 (24.46%)
College or graduate school: 74 (9.95%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,402 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 331 (23.61%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 224 (15.98%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 363 (25.89%)
Some college, no degree: 271 (19.33%)
Associate degree: 10 (0.71%)
Bachelor's degree: 152 (10.84%)
Graduate or professional degree: 51 (3.64%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 60.4%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 14.5%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,779 (100%)
Never married: 410 (23.05%)
Now married, except separated: 1,013 (56.94%)
Separated: 44 (2.47%)
Total Widowed: 152 (8.54%)
Widowed Female: 118 (6.63%)
Total Divorced: 160 (8.99%)
Divorced Female: 91 (5.12%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 62 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 19 (30.65%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,632 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 207 (12.68%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 731 (100%)
--With a disability: 23 (3.15%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,170 (100%)
--With a disability: 330 (28.21%)
----Percent employed: 56.4%
--No disability: 840 (71.79%)
----Percent employed: 74.6%
Population 65 years and over: 246 (100%)
--With a disability: 93 (37.8%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,195 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,166 (53.12%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 910 (41.46%)
--Same county: 403 (18.36%)
--Different county: 507 (23.1%)
----Same state: 429 (19.54%)
----Different state: 78 (3.55%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 119 (5.42%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 2,381 (100%)
Native: 1,889 (79.34%)
--Born in United States: 1,869 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,524 (64.01%)
----Different state: 345 (14.49%)
--Born outside United States: 20 (0.84%)
Foreign born: 492 (20.66%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 204 (8.57%)
--Naturalized citizen: 154 (6.47%)
--Not a citizen: 338 (14.2%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 492 (100%)
Europe: 44 (8.94%)
Asia: 8 (1.63%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 440 (89.43%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,195 (100%)
English only: 1,202 (54.76%)
Language other than English: 993 (45.24%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 514 (23.42%)
--Spanish: 906 (41.28%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 501 (22.82%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 84 (3.83%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 13 (0.59%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 2,381 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,198% (92.31%)
Arab: 3 (0.13%)
Czech: 18 (0.76%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 12 (0.5%)
English: 240 (10.08%)
French (except Basque): 26 (1.09%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 384 (16.13%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 144 (6.05%)
Italian: 8 (0.34%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 0 (0%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 43 (1.81%)
Scottish: 21 (0.88%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 10 (0.42%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 155 (6.51%)
Welsh: 0 (0%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 1,134 (47.63%)

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