DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lee 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 | 440,888 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 81,283 | 100.0 | Native | 400,526 | 90.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 5,826 | 7.2 | Born in United States | 392,088 | 88.9 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,079 | 6.2 | State of residence | 99,888 | 22.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 40,160 | 49.4 | Different state | 292,200 | 66.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 17,679 | 21.7 | Born outside United States | 8,438 | 1.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 12,539 | 15.4 | Foreign born | 40,362 | 9.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 17,858 | 4.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 15,380 | 3.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 327,672 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 24,982 | 5.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 16,393 | 5.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 41,627 | 12.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 106,623 | 32.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 40,362 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 74,189 | 22.6 | Europe | 10,779 | 26.7 | |
| Associate degree | 19,687 | 6.0 | Asia | 2,955 | 7.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 44,193 | 13.5 | Africa | 363 | 0.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 24,960 | 7.6 | Oceania | 94 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 22,015 | 54.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.3 | (X) | Northern America | 4,156 | 10.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 417,783 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 368,561 | 100.0 | English only | 361,208 | 86.5 | |
| Never married | 64,984 | 17.6 | Language other than English | 56,575 | 13.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 223,379 | 60.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24,424 | 5.8 | |
| Separated | 6,186 | 1.7 | Spanish | 36,086 | 8.6 | |
| Widowed | 33,190 | 9.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,377 | 4.2 | |
| Female | 26,085 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 17,177 | 4.1 | |
| Divorced | 40,822 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,822 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 21,902 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,114 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 886 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 440,888 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 7,108 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 475,893 | 107.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 3,232 | 45.5 | Arab | 1,250 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,033 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,880 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 354,439 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,619 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 68,168 | 19.2 | English | 57,736 | 13.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 15,942 | 3.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 5,580 | 1.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 83,131 | 18.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 74,636 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,135 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,468 | 8.7 | Hungarian | 3,632 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 229,414 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 60,683 | 13.8 | |
| With a disability | 47,990 | 20.9 | Italian | 35,459 | 8.0 | |
| Percent employed | 60.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,615 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 181,424 | 79.1 | Norwegian | 5,408 | 1.2 | |
| Percent employed | 73.8 | (X) | Polish | 15,999 | 3.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 109,415 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,936 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 36,467 | 33.3 | Russian | 3,387 | 0.8 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,989 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 10,447 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,857 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 417,783 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 898 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 199,156 | 47.7 | Swedish | 6,558 | 1.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 205,704 | 49.2 | Swiss | 1,607 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 102,000 | 24.4 | Ukrainian | 1,464 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 103,704 | 24.8 | United States or American | 36,241 | 8.2 | |
| Same state | 25,590 | 6.1 | Welsh | 3,551 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 78,114 | 18.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5,281 | 1.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 12,923 | 3.1 | Other ancestries | 92,575 | 21.0 | |
| 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)
