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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, November 21,
Highlights from lates
census survey release I
(AP) — Some highlights
from the Census 2000
Supplementary Survey, a poll
taken by the Census Bureau last
year alongside — but separate
ly from — the traditional
decennial headcount. All results
are estimates and only metro
politan statistical areas with
more than 250,000 residents
were broken out:
• An estimated 10.8 percent
of Houston and 10.6 percent of
Dallas residents arrived in the
United States within the last
decade, mirroring trends in sev
eral other major U.S. cities. The
three border communities in the
survey — El Paso, McAllen-
Edinburg and Brownsville-
Harlingen — cumulatively saw
new immigrants account for 7.8
percent of their population.
• Fresh immigration also
hampered English proficiency
in Houston and Dallas. In
households where Spanish is
spoken at home, English was
spoken “less than very well” in
an estimated 56.5 percent of
such homes in Houston and
56.1 percent of those in Dallas.
• Killeen-Temple, with a
largely transient population
because of giant Fort Hood
nearby, reported the fewest
native Texans at 42.1 percent.
Corpus Christi (77.9 percent)
had the most.
• Only three U.S. communi
ties surveyed had better esti
mated rates of bachelor degree
attainment than Austin-San
Marcos, which came in at 38.7
percent. McAIIen-Edinburg
(10.7 percent) and Brownsville-
Harlingen (13.6 percent)
ranked among the bottom four
nationally.
• Dallas had the largest per
centage of 16- to 19-year-olds
who were not in high school and
did not have a diploma. Its esti
mated 18.2 percent dropout rate
was ninth in the United States.
• Austin-San Marcos ranked
eighth with an estimated 67.7
percent of women in the work
force. The three border commu
nities measured, all with rates in
the 40s, were among the bottom
eight in the United States.
• The Houston area’s average
travel time to work was an esti
mated 26 minutes, 54 seconds,
or 36 seconds longer than that
of the average Dallas-area
worker. Brownsville-Harlingen
residents had the quickest com
mute at 18 minutes, 36 seconds.
• Despite having a growing
light rail line, only an estimated
2.3 percent of the Dallas area
reported commuting on mass
transit, tying the state’s second-
largest city with El Paso.
Houston, the nation’s largest
city without rail, led Texas with
an estimated 3.6 percent mass
transit usage.
• The technology boom
fueled income in the Austin-San
Marcos area, whose estimated
household income led Texas at
$65,322, followed closely by
Dallas ($59,207), Fort Worth-
Arlington ($59,734) and
Houston ($59,207). The lowest
was in McAIIen-Edinburg
($32,709).
• McAIIen-Edinburg reported
the highest estimated poverty
rate at 34.6 percent, followed by
Brownsville-Harlingen at 33.8
percent. Fort Worth-Arlington’s
9.2 percent was Texas’ lowest.
Brownsville-Harlingen ranked
No. 2 nationally in the poverty
rate among children under 5,
with an estimated 53.7 percent
below the line.
• Disabled workers had
more equal standing in Texas
than in the United States as a
whole. The estimated employ
ment rate gap between able-
bodied workers and the disabled
was 30 points nationally and 28
points in Texas. The gap was
largest statewide in Beaumont-
Port Arthur (32 percent), while
the disabled had the best chance
of working in Brownsville-
Harlingen, where the 16-point
gap was No. 2 nationally behind
Provo-Orem, Utah.
Median incoir:
Here is a state-by-stateIstd
median incomes, accordir
new figures from the U.S.
Census Bureau.
New Jersey
Connecticut
Alaska
Maryland
Hawaii
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Delaware
Virginia
California
Colorado
Utah
Illinois
Washington
New York
Michigan
Rhode Island
Nevada
Wisconsin
Nationwide
District c< Columbia
Georgia
Indiana
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Vermont
Oregon
Texas
Arizona
Wyoming
Iowa
Nebraska
North Carolina
Florida
Missouri
Idaho
South Carolina
Maine
Tennessee
South Dakota
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Alabama
New Mexico
Montana
Kentucky
Arkansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
West Virginia
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