Mark Tolbert                                           CB02-CN.107
Public Information Office                                        
(301) 457-3691/457-3620 (fax) 
(301) 457-1037 (TDD)
e-mail: 2000usa@census.gov

              **CENSUS BUREAU PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT**

        Census 2000 Social, Economic and Housing Profiles
                      Released for Texas

   The Census Bureau released Census 2000 demographic profile tables with
social, economic and housing characteristics for Texas today.  The data
- summary tabulations of the responses to census long-form questions -
will be used by elected officials and planners to make decisions affecting
the quality of life in their communities.

   Three new tables are based on answers to the long-form questionnaire,
which was delivered to about 1-in-6 - roughly 19 million - households
nationwide.

   Some of the characteristics included in the new profile tables are:

     - Educational attainment, marital status, grandparents as caregivers, 
       disability status, language spoken at home, place of birth and 
       ancestry;

     - Employment status, occupation, industry, commuting to work, income 
       in 1999 and poverty status in 1999;
                                
     - Units in structure, year structure built, vehicles available, home 
       heating fuel, value of owner occupied housing units and monthly 
       rent.

   A fourth table, with profile data from the short form, was released
last year. It includes characteristics such as age, sex, race, Hispanic or
Latino origin, household relationship and household type and
homeownership.

   The profiles will be made available for every county, place,
metropolitan area, American Indian or Alaska Native area, Hawaiian
homeland and congressional district (106th Congress).

   To access the profile tables on the FTP server, bona fide media
representatives will need two sets of usernames and passwords: one to
enter the embargo page, which may be obtained by faxing a request on 
your organization's letterhead to the Public Information Office at 
(301) 457-3670, and a second set, which is posted in the embargo area.
    
   For more information about how to order paper copies of the 
Demographic Profile with 100 percent and sample data, contact the Census 
Bureau's Customer Services Center, (301) 763-INFO (4636) or e-mail:
webmaster@census.gov.

   For local context, contact the Texas State Data Center on 
(210) 458-6543 or e-mail: karl.eschbach@utsa.edu.