
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Escambia County
[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 | 294,410 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 78,198 | 100.0 | Native | 283,589 | 96.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,209 | 5.4 | Born in United States | 277,218 | 94.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 4,276 | 5.5 | State of residence | 126,750 | 43.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 32,574 | 41.7 | Different state | 150,468 | 51.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 16,334 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 6,371 | 2.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 20,805 | 26.6 | Foreign born | 10,821 | 3.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,583 | 1.2 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 6,088 | 2.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 189,710 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 4,733 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 9,567 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 24,475 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 53,751 | 28.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 10,821 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 46,468 | 24.5 | Europe | 2,495 | 23.1 | |
| Associate degree | 15,660 | 8.3 | Asia | 4,819 | 44.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 25,870 | 13.6 | Africa | 342 | 3.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 13,919 | 7.3 | Oceania | 100 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 2,458 | 22.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.1 | (X) | Northern America | 607 | 5.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 276,629 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 236,774 | 100.0 | English only | 257,796 | 93.2 | |
| Never married | 64,917 | 27.4 | Language other than English | 18,833 | 6.8 | |
| Now married, except separated | 118,400 | 50.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,108 | 2.2 | |
| Separated | 6,720 | 2.8 | Spanish | 7,669 | 2.8 | |
| Widowed | 16,874 | 7.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,394 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 13,827 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 5,523 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 29,863 | 12.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,504 | 0.5 | |
| Female | 17,013 | 7.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,010 | 1.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,028 | 0.7 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 294,410 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,564 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 268,085 | 91.1 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,674 | 48.1 | Arab | 751 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 883 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 794 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 214,514 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,671 | 1.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 47,559 | 22.2 | English | 25,990 | 8.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,420 | 2.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,198 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 30,162 | 10.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 64,663 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,065 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 6,303 | 9.7 | Hungarian | 856 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 153,537 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 29,006 | 9.9 | |
| With a disability | 34,061 | 22.2 | Italian | 10,143 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 51.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 275 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 119,476 | 77.8 | Norwegian | 2,124 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 75.3 | (X) | Polish | 4,378 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 36,669 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 567 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 16,976 | 46.3 | Russian | 995 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,213 | 2.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 5,772 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 234 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 276,629 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,852 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 131,904 | 47.7 | Swedish | 2,436 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 138,232 | 50.0 | Swiss | 386 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 71,210 | 25.7 | Ukrainian | 281 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 67,022 | 24.2 | United States or American | 32,737 | 11.1 | |
| Same state | 20,621 | 7.5 | Welsh | 1,549 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 46,401 | 16.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,070 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,493 | 2.3 | Other ancestries | 92,277 | 31.3 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -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. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)

