DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Edinburg town
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 1,395 100.0
      enrolled in school 280 100.0   Native 1,367 98.0
Nursery school, preschool 11 3.9       Born in United States 1,351 96.8
Kindergarten 12 4.3           State of residence 1,188 85.2
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 121 43.2           Different state 163 11.7
High school (grades 9-12) 89 31.8       Born outside United States 16 1.1
College or graduate school 47 16.8   Foreign born 28 2.0
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 0 0.0
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 19 1.4
  Population 25 years and over 1,065 100.0       Not a citizen 9 0.6
Less than 9th grade 65 6.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 139 13.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 408 38.3     Total (excluding born at sea) 28 100.0
Some college, no degree 206 19.3   Europe 21 75.0
Associate degree 65 6.1   Asia 2 7.1
Bachelor's degree 115 10.8   Africa 0 0.0
Graduate or professional degree 67 6.3   Oceania 0 0.0
        Latin America 0 0.0
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.8 (X)   Northern America 5 17.9
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 17.1 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,348 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 1,204 100.0   English only 1,302 96.6
Never married 239 19.9   Language other than English 46 3.4
Now married, except separated 742 61.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.5
Separated 15 1.2   Spanish 18 1.3
Widowed 89 7.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
 Female 65 5.4   Other Indo-European languages 26 1.9
Divorced 119 9.9           Speak English less than '"very well"' 7 0.5
 Female 45 3.7   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2 0.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 0 0.0
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,395 100.0
           under 18 years 23 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,448 103.8
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 16 69.6   Arab 5 0.4
        Czech¹ 16 1.1
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 0 0.0
          Civilian population 18 years and over 1,133 100.0   Dutch 117 8.4
Civilian veterans 202 17.8   English 145 10.4
        French (except Basque)¹ 101 7.2
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 39 2.8
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 237 17.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 252 100.0   Greek 0 0.0
With a disability 20 7.9   Hungarian 9 0.6
     Population 21 to 64 years 816 100.0   Irish¹ 171 12.3
With a disability 165 20.2   Italian 100 7.2
 Percent employed 44.2 (X)   Lithuanian 0 0.0
No disability 651 79.8   Norwegian 15 1.1
 Percent employed 70.7 (X)   Polish 90 6.5
     Population 65 years and over 267 100.0   Portuguese 0 0.0
With a disability 107 40.1   Russian 3 0.2
        Scotch-Irish 18 1.3
        Scottish 36 2.6
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 6 0.4
  Population 5 years and over 1,348 100.0   Subsaharan African 0 0.0
Same house in 1995 981 72.8   Swedish 11 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 363 26.9   Swiss 5 0.4
 Same county 94 7.0   Ukrainian 2 0.1
 Different county 269 20.0   United States or American 221 15.8
  Same state 202 15.0   Welsh 7 0.5
  Different state 67 5.0   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 0 0.0
Elsewhere in 1995 4 0.3   Other ancestries 94 6.7
 
Date: September 10, 2003
 
-Represent zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable.
¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.