Sweetwater, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4871540, place: Sweetwater city, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 3,141 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 240 (7.64%)
Kindergarten: 189 (6.02%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 1,579 (50.27%)
High school (grades 9-12): 785 (24.99%)
College or graduate school: 348 (11.08%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 7,223 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 961 (13.3%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 1,377 (19.06%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 2,282 (31.59%)
Some college, no degree: 1,404 (19.44%)
Associate degree: 335 (4.64%)
Bachelor's degree: 624 (8.64%)
Graduate or professional degree: 240 (3.32%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 67.6%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 12%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 8,782 (100%)
Never married: 1,778 (20.25%)
Now married, except separated: 4,820 (54.88%)
Separated: 287 (3.27%)
Total Widowed: 991 (11.28%)
Widowed Female: 820 (9.34%)
Total Divorced: 906 (10.32%)
Divorced Female: 476 (5.42%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 320 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 191 (59.69%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 8,215 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 962 (11.71%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 2,885 (100%)
--With a disability: 293 (10.16%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 5,823 (100%)
--With a disability: 1,403 (24.09%)
----Percent employed: 52%
--No disability: 4,420 (75.91%)
----Percent employed: 75.8%
Population 65 years and over: 1,750 (100%)
--With a disability: 872 (49.83%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 10,673 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 5,914 (55.41%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 4,692 (43.96%)
--Same county: 2,512 (23.54%)
--Different county: 2,180 (20.43%)
----Same state: 1,915 (17.94%)
----Different state: 265 (2.48%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 67 (0.63%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 11,437 (100%)
Native: 10,948 (95.72%)
--Born in United States: 10,912 (100%)
----State of residence: 9,650 (84.38%)
----Different state: 1,262 (11.03%)
--Born outside United States: 36 (0.31%)
Foreign born: 489 (4.28%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 119 (1.04%)
--Naturalized citizen: 311 (2.72%)
--Not a citizen: 178 (1.56%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 489 (100%)
Europe: 22 (4.5%)
Asia: 53 (10.84%)
Africa: 6 (1.23%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 408 (83.44%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 10,673 (100%)
English only: 7,830 (73.36%)
Language other than English: 2,843 (26.64%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 795 (7.45%)
--Spanish: 2,760 (25.86%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 759 (7.11%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 65 (0.61%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 30 (0.28%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 12 (0.11%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 6 (0.06%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 11,437 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 9,407% (82.25%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 29 (0.25%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 93 (0.81%)
English: 641 (5.6%)
French (except Basque): 199 (1.74%)
French Canadian: 15 (0.13%)
German: 726 (6.35%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 804 (7.03%)
Italian: 12 (0.1%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 4 (0.03%)
Polish: 14 (0.12%)
Portuguese: 11 (0.1%)
Russian: 18 (0.16%)
Scotch-Irish: 209 (1.83%)
Scottish: 118 (1.03%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 6 (0.05%)
Swedish: 81 (0.71%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 0 (0%)
United States or American: 1,763 (15.41%)
Welsh: 18 (0.16%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 6 (0.05%)
Other ancestries: 4,640 (40.57%)

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