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Issued August 2002

C2KPROF/00-TX

Texas: 2000

U.S. Department of CommerceEconomics and Statistics AdministrationU.S. CENSUS BUREAU

Census 2000 Profile

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Table DP-1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Texas

[For information on confidentiality protection, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]

Subject Number Percent

Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,851,820 100.0

SEX AND AGEMale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,352,910 49.6Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,498,910 50.4

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,624,628 7.85 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,654,184 7.910 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,631,192 7.815 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,636,232 7.820 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,539,404 7.425 to 34 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,162,083 15.235 to 44 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,322,238 15.945 to 54 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,611,137 12.555 to 59 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896,521 4.360 to 64 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701,669 3.465 to 74 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,142,608 5.575 to 84 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691,984 3.385 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237,940 1.1

Median age (years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.3 (X)

18 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,965,061 71.8Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,338,177 35.2Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,626,884 36.6

21 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,981,939 67.162 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,479,192 11.965 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,072,532 9.9

Male . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862,181 4.1Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,210,351 5.8

RACEOne race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,337,187 97.5

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,799,505 71.0Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,404,566 11.5American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 118,362 0.6Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562,319 2.7

Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,365 0.6Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105,829 0.5Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,340 0.3Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,120 0.1Korean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,571 0.2Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,961 0.6Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,133 0.3

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 14,434 0.1Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,475 -Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,641 -Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,491 -Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,827 -

Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,438,001 11.7Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514,633 2.5

Race alone or in combination with oneor more other races: 3

White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,240,387 73.1Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,493,057 12.0American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215,599 1.0Asian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644,193 3.1Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . . . 29,094 0.1Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,766,586 13.3


HISPANIC OR LATINO AND RACETotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,851,820 100.0

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,669,666 32.0Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,071,963 24.3Puerto Rican. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,504 0.3Cuban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,705 0.1Other Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,502,494 7.2

Not Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,182,154 68.0White alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,933,313 52.4

RELATIONSHIPTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,851,820 100.0

In households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,290,711 97.3Householder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393,354 35.5Spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,989,741 19.1Child. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,565,663 31.5

Own child under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,164,472 24.8Other relatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,419,208 6.8

Under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601,820 2.9Nonrelatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922,745 4.4

Unmarried partner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327,246 1.6In group quarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561,109 2.7

Institutionalized population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374,704 1.8Noninstitutionalized population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186,405 0.9

HOUSEHOLD BY TYPETotal households. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393,354 100.0

Family households (families). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,247,794 71.0With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 2,723,330 36.8

Married-couple family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,989,741 54.0With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 2,001,628 27.1

Female householder, no husband present . . . . . 937,589 12.7With own children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . 564,288 7.6

Nonfamily households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,145,560 29.0Householder living alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,752,141 23.7

Householder 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 536,286 7.3

Households with individuals under 18 years . . . . . 3,027,570 40.9Households with individuals 65 years and over . . 1,469,876 19.9

Average household size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.74 (X)Average family size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.28 (X)

HOUSING OCCUPANCYTotal housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,157,575 100.0

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393,354 90.6Vacant housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764,221 9.4

For seasonal, recreational, oroccasional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,149 2.1

Homeowner vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 (X)Rental vacancy rate (percent). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 (X)

HOUSING TENUREOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393,354 100.0

Owner-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,716,959 63.8Renter-occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,676,395 36.2

Average household size of owner-occupied units. 2.87 (X)Average household size of renter-occupied units . 2.53 (X)

- Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1 Other Asian alone, or two or more Asian categories.2 Other Pacific Islander alone, or two or more Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander categories.3 In combination with one or more of the other races listed. The six numbers may add to more than the total population and the six percentages

may add to more than 100 percent because individuals may report more than one race.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000.

U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000

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Table DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Texas

[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


SCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and overenrolled in school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,948,260 100.0

Nursery school, preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390,094 6.6Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348,203 5.9Elementary school (grades 1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,707,281 45.5High school (grades 9-12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,299,792 21.9College or graduate school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,202,890 20.2

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTPopulation 25 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 12,790,893 100.0

Less than 9th grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,465,420 11.59th to 12th grade, no diploma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,649,141 12.9High school graduate (includes equivalency). . . . . 3,176,743 24.8Some college, no degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,858,802 22.4Associate degree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668,494 5.2Bachelor’s degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,996,250 15.6Graduate or professional degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976,043 7.6

Percent high school graduate or higher . . . . . . . . . 75.7 (X)Percent bachelor’s degree or higher . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.2 (X)

MARITAL STATUSPopulation 15 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 15,937,643 100.0

Never married . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,076,697 25.6Now married, except separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,006,327 56.5Separated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392,957 2.5Widowed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902,613 5.7

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738,953 4.6Divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,559,049 9.8

Female. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895,265 5.6

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERSGrandparent living in household withone or more own grandchildren under18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551,047 100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren . . . . . . 257,074 46.7

VETERAN STATUSCivilian population 18 years and over . . 14,871,550 100.0

Civilian veterans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,754,809 11.8

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIANNONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

Population 5 to 20 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,183,137 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410,150 7.9

Population 21 to 64 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,612,066 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,315,414 19.9

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 (X)No disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,296,652 80.1

Percent employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.7 (X)

Population 65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . 1,966,272 100.0With a disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879,978 44.8

RESIDENCE IN 1995Population 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . 19,241,518 100.0

Same house in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,545,367 49.6Different house in the U.S. in 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,970,191 46.6

Same county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,204,389 27.0Different county . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,765,802 19.6

Same state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,402,953 12.5Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,362,849 7.1

Elsewhere in 1995. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725,960 3.8


NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTHTotal population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,851,820 100.0

Native. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,952,178 86.1Born in United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,727,394 85.0

State of residence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,970,203 62.2Different state. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,757,191 22.8

Born outside United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224,784 1.1Foreign born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,899,642 13.9

Entered 1990 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,335,524 6.4Naturalized citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914,326 4.4Not a citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,985,316 9.5

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORNTotal (excluding born at sea). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,899,640 100.0

Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152,327 5.3Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466,218 16.1Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,470 2.2Oceania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,984 0.2Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,172,476 74.9Northern America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,165 1.3

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOMEPopulation 5 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,241,518 100.0

English only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,230,765 68.8Language other than English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,010,753 31.2

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 2,669,603 13.9Spanish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,195,182 27.0

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 2,369,036 12.3Other Indo-European languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358,019 1.9

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 92,380 0.5Asian and Pacific Island languages . . . . . . . . . . . 374,330 1.9

Speak English less than ″very well″ . . . . . . . . 186,504 1.0

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)Total population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,851,820 100.0Total ancestries reported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,485,505 93.4

Arab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,733 0.3Czech1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,729 0.9Danish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,719 0.2Dutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,566 1.0English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,462,984 7.0French (except Basque)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466,815 2.2French Canadian1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,964 0.4German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,068,981 9.9Greek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,319 0.2Hungarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,234 0.1Irish1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,507,845 7.2Italian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,354 1.7Lithuanian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,586 0.1Norwegian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,968 0.6Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228,309 1.1Portuguese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,552 0.1Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,465 0.3Scotch-Irish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337,630 1.6Scottish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289,827 1.4Slovak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,341 -Subsaharan African. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,754 0.6Swedish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,871 0.6Swiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,774 0.1Ukrainian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,574 0.1United States or American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,554,012 7.5Welsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,113 0.4West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) . . . . . . . . 40,345 0.2Other ancestries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,915,141 47.6

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsa-tian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.



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Table DP-3. Profile of Selected Economic Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Texas[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


EMPLOYMENT STATUSPopulation 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,617,373 100.0

In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,937,150 63.6Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,830,559 62.9

Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,234,372 59.1Unemployed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596,187 3.8

Percent of civilian labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1 (X)Armed Forces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,591 0.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,680,223 36.4

Females 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,960,900 100.0In labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,473,242 56.2

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,454,434 56.0Employed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,165,686 52.3

Own children under 6 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,827,869 100.0All parents in family in labor force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 974,015 53.3

COMMUTING TO WORKWorkers 16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,157,875 100.0

Car, truck, or van - - drove alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,115,590 77.7Car, truck, or van - - carpooled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,326,012 14.5Public transportation (including taxicab) . . . . . . . . . 170,268 1.9Walked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,670 1.9Other means. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,311 1.3Worked at home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252,024 2.8Mean travel time to work (minutes)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.4 (X)

Employed civilian population16 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,234,372 100.0

OCCUPATIONManagement, professional, and relatedoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,078,757 33.3

Service occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,351,270 14.6Sales and office occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,515,596 27.2Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . 61,486 0.7Construction, extraction, and maintenanceoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,008,353 10.9

Production, transportation, and material movingoccupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,218,910 13.2

INDUSTRYAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting,and mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247,697 2.7

Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743,606 8.1Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,093,752 11.8Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362,928 3.9Retail trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,108,004 12.0Transportation and warehousing, and utilities . . . . 535,568 5.8Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283,256 3.1Finance, insurance, real estate, and rental andleasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630,133 6.8

Professional, scientific, management, adminis-trative, and waste management services . . . . . . . 878,726 9.5

Educational, health and social services . . . . . . . . . 1,779,801 19.3Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodationand food services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673,016 7.3

Other services (except public administration) . . . . 480,785 5.2Public administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417,100 4.5

CLASS OF WORKERPrivate wage and salary workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,202,769 78.0Government workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,346,738 14.6Self-employed workers in own not incorporatedbusiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653,527 7.1

Unpaid family workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,338 0.3


INCOME IN 1999Households . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,397,294 100.0

Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767,505 10.4$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491,154 6.6$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,004,123 13.6$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996,141 13.5$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,219,358 16.5$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,359,437 18.4$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705,684 9.5$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536,018 7.2$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,492 2.1$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,382 2.2Median household income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,927 (X)

With earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,202,954 83.9Mean earnings (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,870 (X)

With Social Security income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,595,861 21.6Mean Social Security income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . 10,719 (X)

With Supplemental Security Income . . . . . . . . . . . . 286,092 3.9Mean Supplemental Security Income(dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,837 (X)

With public assistance income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,081 3.2Mean public assistance income (dollars)1 . . . . . 2,285 (X)

With retirement income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973,718 13.2Mean retirement income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,437 (X)

Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,283,474 100.0Less than $10,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367,617 7.0$10,000 to $14,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279,191 5.3$15,000 to $24,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649,599 12.3$25,000 to $34,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677,221 12.8$35,000 to $49,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887,527 16.8$50,000 to $74,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,084,983 20.5$75,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598,225 11.3$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462,866 8.8$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,343 2.5$200,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,902 2.7Median family income (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,861 (X)

Per capita income (dollars)1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,617 (X)Median earnings (dollars):Male full-time, year-round workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,925 (X)Female full-time, year-round workers . . . . . . . . . . . 26,168 (X)

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povertylevel

POVERTY STATUS IN 1999Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632,676 12.0

With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 503,911 16.6With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 263,002 20.7

Families with female householder, nohusband present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266,954 29.5

With related children under 18 years. . . . . . . . . . . . 235,353 36.2With related children under 5 years. . . . . . . . . . . 111,163 47.2

Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,117,609 15.418 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,927,674 13.3

65 years and over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251,172 12.8Related children under 18 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,162,141 20.2

Related children 5 to 17 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806,427 19.3Unrelated individuals 15 years and over. . . . . . . . . 730,618 24.6

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.1If the denominator of a mean value or per capita value is less than 30, then that value is calculated using a rounded aggregate in the numerator.See text.



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Table DP-4. Profile of Selected Housing Characteristics: 2000Geographic area: Texas

[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]


Total housing units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,157,575 100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,171,892 63.41-unit, attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249,018 3.12 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170,679 2.13 or 4 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272,988 3.35 to 9 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356,073 4.410 to 19 units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351,859 4.320 or more units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819,101 10.0Mobile home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731,652 9.0Boat, RV, van, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,313 0.4

YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285,423 3.51995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788,815 9.71990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615,612 7.51980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,843,009 22.61970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,753,545 21.51960 to 1969 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,096,908 13.41940 to 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,336,454 16.41939 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437,809 5.4

ROOMS1 room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,639 2.52 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510,542 6.33 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981,597 12.04 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,328,543 16.35 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,833,437 22.56 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,474,159 18.17 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856,297 10.58 rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501,265 6.19 or more rooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464,096 5.7Median (rooms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 (X)

Occupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393,354 100.0YEAR HOUSEHOLDER MOVED INTO UNIT1999 to March 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,842,731 24.91995 to 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,233,669 30.21990 to 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,126,526 15.21980 to 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,030,476 13.91970 to 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630,749 8.51969 or earlier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529,203 7.2

VEHICLES AVAILABLENone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548,125 7.41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,658,321 36.02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,024,813 40.93 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,162,095 15.7

HOUSE HEATING FUELUtility gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,192,579 43.2Bottled, tank, or LP gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469,684 6.4Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,651,110 49.4Fuel oil, kerosene, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,452 0.1Coal or coke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 -Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,046 0.4Solar energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,621 -Other fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,556 0.1No fuel used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,965 0.4

SELECTED CHARACTERISTICSLacking complete plumbing facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,853 0.7Lacking complete kitchen facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,511 0.7No telephone service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,909 3.2


OCCUPANTS PER ROOMOccupied housing units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,393,354 100.0

1.00 or less. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,695,272 90.61.01 to 1.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362,295 4.91.51 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335,787 4.5

Specified owner-occupied units . . . . . . . . 3,849,585 100.0VALUELess than $50,000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875,444 22.7$50,000 to $99,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,561,509 40.6$100,000 to $149,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700,830 18.2$150,000 to $199,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335,179 8.7$200,000 to $299,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,968 5.8$300,000 to $499,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,821 2.7$500,000 to $999,999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,697 1.0$1,000,000 or more. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,137 0.3Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,500 (X)

MORTGAGE STATUS AND SELECTEDMONTHLY OWNER COSTS

With a mortgage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,471,978 64.2Less than $300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,398 0.5$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,939 4.3$500 to $699 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374,627 9.7$700 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706,875 18.4$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710,869 18.5$1,500 to $1,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278,944 7.2$2,000 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214,326 5.6Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986 (X)

Not mortgaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,377,607 35.8Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 (X)

SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTSAS A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDINCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,568,141 40.715.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701,804 18.220.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509,176 13.225.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315,316 8.230.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,337 5.035.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522,231 13.6Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,580 1.1

Specified renter-occupied units . . . . . . . . 2,649,196 100.0GROSS RENTLess than $200 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,323 4.4$200 to $299 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,921 4.7$300 to $499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665,505 25.1$500 to $749 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981,603 37.1$750 to $999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408,142 15.4$1,000 to $1,499 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167,914 6.3$1,500 or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,170 1.6No cash rent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,618 5.4Median (dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574 (X)

GROSS RENT AS A PERCENTAGE OFHOUSEHOLD INCOME IN 1999

Less than 15.0 percent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498,475 18.815.0 to 19.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405,696 15.320.0 to 24.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356,043 13.425.0 to 29.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269,717 10.230.0 to 34.9 percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191,319 7.235.0 percent or more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717,156 27.1Not computed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210,790 8.0

-Represents zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable.



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U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

U S C E N S U S B U R E A UHelping You Make Informed Decisions •1902-2002

Census 2000: Texas Profile

0 20 40 80 160 Kilometers

0 20 40 80 160 Miles120

120

5,000.0 to 57,709.4

500.0 to 4,999.9

79.6 to 499.9

20.0 to 79.5

5.0 to 19.9

1.0 to 4.9

Less than 1.0

County Boundary

Texas Mean Centerof Population

Population Per Square Mileby Census Tract

U.S. density is79.6

Population Density by Census Tract

36.2% RenterOccupied63.8% Owner Occupied

Average Household Sizeof Renter-Occupied Units:

2.53 people

Average Household Sizeof Owner-Occupied Units:

2.87 people

Total Occupied Housing Units:

7,393,354

Housing Tenure

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

85+ Years

0 425,000 850,000850,000 425,000

FemaleMale

Population by Sex and AgeTotal Population: 20,851,820

Hispanic or Latino (of any race) makes up 32.0% of the state population.

State Race* BreakdownBlack or African American

(11.5%)

American Indian andAlaska Native (0.6%)

Asian (2.7%)

Native Hawaiian and OtherPacific Islander (0.1%)

Some other race (11.7%)

Two or more races(2.5%)

White(71.0%)

*One race

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