San Antonio Texas Social and demographic information

San Antonio Texas Social information

   

Summary - Age, Sex, Race

   
  More Census Data:      
  Social Demographics - School, Marital, Ancestry Economic - Employment, Income, Industry Housing - Occupancy, Mortgage, Rent  

 

Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: San Antonio city
 

Subject Number Percent   Subject Number Percent

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 1,144,554 100.0
      enrolled in school 335,988 100.0   Native 1,010,879 88.3
Nursery school, preschool 20,888 6.2       Born in United States 989,251 86.4
Kindergarten 20,386 6.1           State of residence 764,493 66.8
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 148,365 44.2           Different state 224,758 19.6
High school (grades 9-12) 71,942 21.4       Born outside United States 21,628 1.9
College or graduate school 74,407 22.1   Foreign born 133,675 11.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 47,309 4.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 54,322 4.7
  Population 25 years and over 696,022 100.0       Not a citizen 79,353 6.9
Less than 9th grade 86,799 12.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 86,764 12.5   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 168,209 24.2     Total (excluding born at sea) 133,675 100.0
Some college, no degree 163,203 23.4   Europe 8,323 6.2
Associate degree 40,367 5.8   Asia 15,840 11.8
Bachelor's degree 95,761 13.8   Africa 1,358 1.0
Graduate or professional degree 54,919 7.9   Oceania 248 0.2
        Latin America 106,053 79.3
Percent high school graduate or higher 75.1 (X)   Northern America 1,853 1.4
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 21.6 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 1,052,750 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 870,155 100.0   English only 560,786 53.3
Never married 249,892 28.7   Language other than English 491,964 46.7
Now married, except separated 439,473 50.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 170,773 16.2
Separated 25,731 3.0   Spanish 463,028 44.0
Widowed 52,511 6.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 161,525 15.3
 Female 43,430 5.0   Other Indo-European languages 14,444 1.4
Divorced 102,548 11.8           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,104 0.3
 Female 62,134 7.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 11,822 1.1
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 5,306 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 1,144,554 100.0
           under 18 years 37,267 100.0     Total ancestries reported 1,132,806 99.0
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 15,075 40.5   Arab 3,787 0.3
        Czech¹ 5,763 0.5
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 2,166 0.2
          Civilian population 18 years and over 805,492 100.0   Dutch 7,096 0.6
Civilian veterans 118,951 14.8   English 57,099 5.0
        French (except Basque)¹ 20,106 1.8
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 3,830 0.3
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 103,366 9.0
     Population 5 to 20 years 285,499 100.0   Greek 2,060 0.2
With a disability 25,806 9.0   Hungarian 1,272 0.1
     Population 21 to 64 years 627,933 100.0   Irish¹ 59,951 5.2
With a disability 141,640 22.6   Italian 21,697 1.9
 Percent employed 57.4 (X)   Lithuanian 938 0.1
No disability 486,293 77.4   Norwegian 4,914 0.4
 Percent employed 73.4 (X)   Polish 14,475 1.3
     Population 65 years and over 114,113 100.0   Portuguese 1,341 0.1
With a disability 53,527 46.9   Russian 3,126 0.3
        Scotch-Irish 14,938 1.3
        Scottish 11,915 1.0
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 549 0.0
  Population 5 years and over 1,052,750 100.0   Subsaharan African 4,192 0.4
Same house in 1995 537,385 51.0   Swedish 5,322 0.5
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 483,703 45.9   Swiss 1,359 0.1
 Same county 334,812 31.8   Ukrainian 761 0.1
 Different county 148,891 14.1   United States or American 36,123 3.2
  Same state 72,436 6.9   Welsh 3,598 0.3
  Different state 76,455 7.3   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 1,486 0.1
Elsewhere in 1995 31,662 3.0   Other ancestries 739,576 64.6
 
Date: January 10, 2005
 
-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.

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