Mount Vernon, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4849860, place: Mount Vernon town, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 570 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 41 (7.19%)
Kindergarten: 36 (6.32%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 239 (41.93%)
High school (grades 9-12): 158 (27.72%)
College or graduate school: 96 (16.84%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,497 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 128 (8.55%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 228 (15.23%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 488 (32.6%)
Some college, no degree: 322 (21.51%)
Associate degree: 81 (5.41%)
Bachelor's degree: 164 (10.96%)
Graduate or professional degree: 86 (5.74%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 76.2%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 16.7%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,834 (100%)
Never married: 368 (20.07%)
Now married, except separated: 1,001 (54.58%)
Separated: 30 (1.64%)
Total Widowed: 205 (11.18%)
Widowed Female: 184 (10.03%)
Total Divorced: 230 (12.54%)
Divorced Female: 149 (8.12%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 51 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 36 (70.59%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,715 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 190 (11.08%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 525 (100%)
--With a disability: 65 (12.38%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,118 (100%)
--With a disability: 303 (27.1%)
----Percent employed: 70.3%
--No disability: 815 (72.9%)
----Percent employed: 77.9%
Population 65 years and over: 368 (100%)
--With a disability: 164 (44.57%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,126 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 1,228 (57.76%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 874 (41.11%)
--Same county: 383 (18.02%)
--Different county: 491 (23.1%)
----Same state: 376 (17.69%)
----Different state: 115 (5.41%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 24 (1.13%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 2,297 (100%)
Native: 2,209 (96.17%)
--Born in United States: 2,203 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,760 (76.62%)
----Different state: 443 (19.29%)
--Born outside United States: 6 (0.26%)
Foreign born: 88 (3.83%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 32 (1.39%)
--Naturalized citizen: 29 (1.26%)
--Not a citizen: 59 (2.57%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 88 (100%)
Europe: 5 (5.68%)
Asia: 1 (1.14%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 80 (90.91%)
Northern America: 2 (2.27%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,126 (100%)
English only: 1,936 (91.06%)
Language other than English: 190 (8.94%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 65 (3.06%)
--Spanish: 158 (7.43%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 58 (2.73%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 25 (1.18%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 6 (0.28%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 7 (0.33%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 1 (0.05%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 2,297 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,908% (83.06%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 6 (0.26%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 29 (1.26%)
English: 204 (8.88%)
French (except Basque): 38 (1.65%)
French Canadian: 0 (0%)
German: 178 (7.75%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 236 (10.27%)
Italian: 11 (0.48%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 0 (0%)
Polish: 13 (0.57%)
Portuguese: 4 (0.17%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 32 (1.39%)
Scottish: 40 (1.74%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 2 (0.09%)
Swedish: 23 (1%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 386 (16.8%)
Welsh: 5 (0.22%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 2 (0.09%)
Other ancestries: 699 (30.43%)

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