Wallis, TX

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:4876240, place: Wallis city, Texas)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 329 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 16 (4.86%)
Kindergarten: 19 (5.78%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 141 (42.86%)
High school (grades 9-12): 112 (34.04%)
College or graduate school: 41 (12.46%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 749 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 91 (12.15%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 96 (12.82%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 322 (42.99%)
Some college, no degree: 127 (16.96%)
Associate degree: 35 (4.67%)
Bachelor's degree: 55 (7.34%)
Graduate or professional degree: 23 (3.07%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 75%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 10.4%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 936 (100%)
Never married: 234 (25%)
Now married, except separated: 538 (57.48%)
Separated: 12 (1.28%)
Total Widowed: 63 (6.73%)
Widowed Female: 54 (5.77%)
Total Divorced: 89 (9.51%)
Divorced Female: 52 (5.56%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 27 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 16 (59.26%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 851 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 84 (9.87%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 311 (100%)
--With a disability: 14 (4.5%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 681 (100%)
--With a disability: 136 (19.97%)
----Percent employed: 52.9%
--No disability: 545 (80.03%)
----Percent employed: 77.4%
Population 65 years and over: 122 (100%)
--With a disability: 66 (54.1%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,117 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 706 (63.21%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 362 (32.41%)
--Same county: 153 (13.7%)
--Different county: 209 (18.71%)
----Same state: 197 (17.64%)
----Different state: 12 (1.07%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 49 (4.39%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,191 (100%)
Native: 1,144 (96.05%)
--Born in United States: 1,130 (100%)
----State of residence: 1,038 (87.15%)
----Different state: 92 (7.72%)
--Born outside United States: 14 (1.18%)
Foreign born: 47 (3.95%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 5 (0.42%)
--Naturalized citizen: 11 (0.92%)
--Not a citizen: 36 (3.02%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 47 (100%)
Europe: 1 (2.13%)
Asia: 0 (0%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 43 (91.49%)
Northern America: 3 (6.38%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,117 (100%)
English only: 918 (82.18%)
Language other than English: 199 (17.82%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 69 (6.18%)
--Spanish: 152 (13.61%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 55 (4.92%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 47 (4.21%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 14 (1.25%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,191 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,236% (103.78%)
Arab: 0 (0%)
Czech: 272 (22.84%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 16 (1.34%)
English: 29 (2.43%)
French (except Basque): 46 (3.86%)
French Canadian: 1 (0.08%)
German: 218 (18.3%)
Greek: 0 (0%)
Hungarian: 0 (0%)
Irish: 74 (6.21%)
Italian: 16 (1.34%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 3 (0.25%)
Polish: 38 (3.19%)
Portuguese: 2 (0.17%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 37 (3.11%)
Scottish: 4 (0.34%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 0 (0%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 3 (0.25%)
United States or American: 105 (8.82%)
Welsh: 0 (0%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 372 (31.23%)

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