
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Indian River 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 | 112,947 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 22,308 | 100.0 | Native | 103,796 | 91.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,551 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 102,608 | 90.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,073 | 4.8 | State of residence | 31,427 | 27.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 10,530 | 47.2 | Different state | 71,181 | 63.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 5,421 | 24.3 | Born outside United States | 1,188 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 3,733 | 16.7 | Foreign born | 9,151 | 8.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 3,199 | 2.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 4,120 | 3.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 84,531 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 5,031 | 4.5 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 5,292 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,299 | 12.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 24,572 | 29.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 9,151 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 19,620 | 23.2 | Europe | 2,478 | 27.1 | |
| Associate degree | 5,215 | 6.2 | Asia | 800 | 8.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 12,833 | 15.2 | Africa | 108 | 1.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 6,700 | 7.9 | Oceania | 54 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 4,908 | 53.6 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.6 | (X) | Northern America | 803 | 8.8 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 23.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 107,745 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 95,195 | 100.0 | English only | 96,498 | 89.6 | |
| Never married | 15,815 | 16.6 | Language other than English | 11,247 | 10.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 57,746 | 60.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,751 | 4.4 | |
| Separated | 1,549 | 1.6 | Spanish | 6,925 | 6.4 | |
| Widowed | 9,890 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 3,589 | 3.3 | |
| Female | 7,809 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 3,527 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 10,195 | 10.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 880 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 5,598 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 585 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 200 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 112,947 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,975 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 119,577 | 105.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 955 | 48.4 | Arab | 308 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 585 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 450 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 91,227 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,173 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 18,675 | 20.5 | English | 17,128 | 15.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,131 | 3.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,064 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 17,906 | 15.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 19,208 | 100.0 | Greek | 510 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 1,571 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 665 | 0.6 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 54,641 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 17,626 | 15.6 | |
| With a disability | 12,068 | 22.1 | Italian | 9,422 | 8.3 | |
| Percent employed | 62.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 287 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 42,573 | 77.9 | Norwegian | 957 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 73.3 | (X) | Polish | 3,381 | 3.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 32,501 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 490 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 10,823 | 33.3 | Russian | 858 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 2,449 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,227 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 285 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 107,745 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 639 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 56,122 | 52.1 | Swedish | 1,857 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 49,539 | 46.0 | Swiss | 363 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 22,131 | 20.5 | Ukrainian | 316 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 27,408 | 25.4 | United States or American | 8,769 | 7.8 | |
| Same state | 11,468 | 10.6 | Welsh | 1,094 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 15,940 | 14.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 892 | 0.8 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,084 | 1.9 | Other ancestries | 21,745 | 19.3 | |
| 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)

