Roanoke, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4862504, place: Roanoke city, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 783 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 61 (7.79%)
Kindergarten: 19 (2.43%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 339 (43.3%)
High school (grades 9-12): 130 (16.6%)
College or graduate school: 234 (29.89%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 1,788 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 70 (3.91%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 172 (9.62%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 566 (31.66%)
Some college, no degree: 471 (26.34%)
Associate degree: 87 (4.87%)
Bachelor's degree: 345 (19.3%)
Graduate or professional degree: 77 (4.31%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 86.5%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 23.6%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 2,240 (100%)
Never married: 479 (21.38%)
Now married, except separated: 1,381 (61.65%)
Separated: 54 (2.41%)
Total Widowed: 78 (3.48%)
Widowed Female: 52 (2.32%)
Total Divorced: 248 (11.07%)
Divorced Female: 164 (7.32%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 52 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 32 (61.54%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 2,123 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 241 (11.35%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 672 (100%)
--With a disability: 73 (10.86%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 1,799 (100%)
--With a disability: 293 (16.29%)
----Percent employed: 70.3%
--No disability: 1,506 (83.71%)
----Percent employed: 82.7%
Population 65 years and over: 146 (100%)
--With a disability: 55 (37.67%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 2,617 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 859 (32.82%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 1,726 (65.95%)
--Same county: 433 (16.55%)
--Different county: 1,293 (49.41%)
----Same state: 988 (37.75%)
----Different state: 305 (11.65%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 32 (1.22%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 2,867 (100%)
Native: 2,667 (93.02%)
--Born in United States: 2,631 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,465 (51.1%)
----Different state: 1,166 (40.67%)
--Born outside United States: 36 (1.26%)
Foreign born: 200 (6.98%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 120 (4.19%)
--Naturalized citizen: 81 (2.83%)
--Not a citizen: 119 (4.15%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 200 (100%)
Europe: 19 (9.5%)
Asia: 25 (12.5%)
Africa: 2 (1%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 142 (71%)
Northern America: 12 (6%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 2,617 (100%)
English only: 2,321 (88.69%)
Language other than English: 296 (11.31%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 108 (4.13%)
--Spanish: 254 (9.71%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 108 (4.13%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 24 (0.92%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 6 (0.23%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 2,867 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 2,655% (92.61%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 15 (0.52%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 42 (1.46%)
English: 303 (10.57%)
French (except Basque): 82 (2.86%)
French Canadian: 17 (0.59%)
German: 393 (13.71%)
Greek: 13 (0.45%)
Hungarian: 7 (0.24%)
Irish: 335 (11.68%)
Italian: 109 (3.8%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 57 (1.99%)
Polish: 40 (1.4%)
Portuguese: 0 (0%)
Russian: 24 (0.84%)
Scotch-Irish: 14 (0.49%)
Scottish: 62 (2.16%)
Slovak: 2 (0.07%)
Subsaharan African: 2 (0.07%)
Swedish: 17 (0.59%)
Swiss: 8 (0.28%)
Ukrainian: 19 (0.66%)
United States or American: 385 (13.43%)
Welsh: 18 (0.63%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 691 (24.1%)

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