Waco, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4876000, place: Waco city, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 40,367 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 2,120 (5.25%)
Kindergarten: 1,644 (4.07%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 13,186 (32.67%)
High school (grades 9-12): 5,596 (13.86%)
College or graduate school: 17,821 (44.15%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 62,302 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 7,366 (11.82%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 10,297 (16.53%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 16,291 (26.15%)
Some college, no degree: 13,047 (20.94%)
Associate degree: 3,708 (5.95%)
Bachelor's degree: 6,966 (11.18%)
Graduate or professional degree: 4,627 (7.43%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 71.6%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 18.6%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 89,545 (100%)
Never married: 29,711 (33.18%)
Now married, except separated: 41,087 (45.88%)
Separated: 2,521 (2.82%)
Total Widowed: 7,015 (7.83%)
Widowed Female: 5,676 (6.34%)
Total Divorced: 9,211 (10.29%)
Divorced Female: 5,525 (6.17%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 2,745 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 1,446 (52.68%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 84,891 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 9,905 (11.67%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 31,978 (100%)
--With a disability: 2,886 (9.02%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 56,100 (100%)
--With a disability: 13,505 (24.07%)
----Percent employed: 54.9%
--No disability: 42,595 (75.93%)
----Percent employed: 71.5%
Population 65 years and over: 13,939 (100%)
--With a disability: 6,670 (47.85%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 105,493 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 44,027 (41.73%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 58,608 (55.56%)
--Same county: 31,726 (30.07%)
--Different county: 26,882 (25.48%)
----Same state: 19,522 (18.51%)
----Different state: 7,360 (6.98%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 2,858 (2.71%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 114,032 (100%)
Native: 104,461 (91.61%)
--Born in United States: 103,668 (100%)
----State of residence: 83,663 (73.37%)
----Different state: 20,005 (17.54%)
--Born outside United States: 793 (0.7%)
Foreign born: 9,571 (8.39%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 4,710 (4.13%)
--Naturalized citizen: 2,364 (2.07%)
--Not a citizen: 7,207 (6.32%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 9,571 (100%)
Europe: 443 (4.63%)
Asia: 1,065 (11.13%)
Africa: 147 (1.54%)
Oceania: 6 (0.06%)
Latin America: 7,837 (81.88%)
Northern America: 73 (0.76%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 105,493 (100%)
English only: 84,663 (80.25%)
Language other than English: 20,830 (19.75%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 9,765 (9.26%)
--Spanish: 18,478 (17.52%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 8,966 (8.5%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 1,134 (1.07%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 244 (0.23%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 1,046 (0.99%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 485 (0.46%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 114,032 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 97,810% (85.77%)
Arab: 339 (0.3%)
Czech: 1,370 (1.2%)
Danish: 105 (0.09%)
Dutch: 640 (0.56%)
English: 7,288 (6.39%)
French (except Basque): 1,709 (1.5%)
French Canadian: 183 (0.16%)
German: 10,500 (9.21%)
Greek: 124 (0.11%)
Hungarian: 72 (0.06%)
Irish: 6,871 (6.03%)
Italian: 1,486 (1.3%)
Lithuanian: 51 (0.04%)
Norwegian: 721 (0.63%)
Polish: 759 (0.67%)
Portuguese: 18 (0.02%)
Russian: 150 (0.13%)
Scotch-Irish: 2,173 (1.91%)
Scottish: 1,503 (1.32%)
Slovak: 15 (0.01%)
Subsaharan African: 512 (0.45%)
Swedish: 507 (0.44%)
Swiss: 163 (0.14%)
Ukrainian: 27 (0.02%)
United States or American: 6,694 (5.87%)
Welsh: 326 (0.29%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 83 (0.07%)
Other ancestries: 53,421 (46.85%)

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