General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4830584, place: Granite Shoals city, Texas)SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school: 432 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 39 (9.03%)
Kindergarten: 23 (5.32%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 223 (51.62%)
High school (grades 9-12): 103 (23.84%)
College or graduate school: 44 (10.19%)
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over: 1,452 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 144 (9.92%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 245 (16.87%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 431 (29.68%)
Some college, no degree: 357 (24.59%)
Associate degree: 81 (5.58%)
Bachelor's degree: 124 (8.54%)
Graduate or professional degree: 70 (4.82%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 73.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 13.4%
MARITIAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over: 1,670 (100%)
Never married: 238 (14.25%)
Now married, except separated: 1,002 (60%)
Separated: 41 (2.46%)
Total Widowed: 136 (8.14%)
Widowed Female: 105 (6.29%)
Total Divorced: 253 (15.15%)
Divorced Female: 125 (7.49%)
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 43 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 30 (69.77%)
VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over: 1,568 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 303 (19.32%)
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATIONPopulation 5 to 20 years: 408 (100%)
--With a disability: 31 (7.6%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,132 (100%)
--With a disability: 304 (26.86%)
----Percent employed: 60.5%
--No disability: 828 (73.14%)
----Percent employed: 66.9%
Population 65 years and over: 382 (100%)
--With a disability: 161 (42.15%)
RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over: 1,926 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,040 (54%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 845 (43.87%)
--Same county: 286 (14.85%)
--Different county: 559 (29.02%)
----Same state: 401 (20.82%)
----Different state: 158 (8.2%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 41 (2.13%)
NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population: 2,047 (100%)
Native: 1,875 (91.6%)
--Born in United States: 1,865 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,281 (62.58%)
----Different state: 584 (28.53%)
--Born outside United States: 10 (0.49%)
Foreign born: 172 (8.4%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 58 (2.83%)
--Naturalized citizen: 40 (1.95%)
--Not a citizen: 132 (6.45%)
REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea): 172 (100%)
Europe: 6 (3.49%)
Asia: 3 (1.74%)
Africa: 1 (0.58%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 158 (91.86%)
Northern America: 4 (2.33%)
LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over: 1,926 (100%)
English only: 1,591 (82.61%)
Language other than English: 335 (17.39%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 168 (8.72%)
--Spanish: 311 (16.15%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 164 (8.52%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 22 (1.14%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 4 (0.21%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population: 2,047 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,012% (98.29%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 32 (1.56%)
Danish: 6 (0.29%)
Dutch: 36 (1.76%)
English: 264 (12.9%)
French (except Basque): 48 (2.34%)
French Canadian: 14 (0.68%)
German: 355 (17.34%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 4 (0.2%)
Irish: 307 (15%)
Italian: 30 (1.47%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 10 (0.49%)
Polish: 11 (0.54%)
Portuguese: 10 (0.49%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 39 (1.91%)
Scottish: 48 (2.34%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 19 (0.93%)
Swiss: 2 (0.1%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 171 (8.35%)
Welsh: 22 (1.07%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 3 (0.15%)
Other ancestries: 581 (28.38%)
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