DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Miami-Dade 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 | 2,253,362 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 643,727 | 100.0 | Native | 1,105,597 | 49.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 39,440 | 6.1 | Born in United States | 1,036,463 | 46.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 34,034 | 5.3 | State of residence | 666,190 | 29.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 261,919 | 40.7 | Different state | 370,273 | 16.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 147,899 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 69,134 | 3.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 160,435 | 24.9 | Foreign born | 1,147,765 | 50.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 416,059 | 18.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 535,080 | 23.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 1,491,789 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 612,685 | 27.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 219,066 | 14.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 260,287 | 17.4 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 332,997 | 22.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,147,756 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 262,157 | 17.6 | Europe | 44,067 | 3.8 | |
| Associate degree | 93,883 | 6.3 | Asia | 28,638 | 2.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 183,978 | 12.3 | Africa | 4,851 | 0.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 139,421 | 9.3 | Oceania | 373 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,064,436 | 92.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 67.9 | (X) | Northern America | 5,391 | 0.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 2,108,512 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 1,789,515 | 100.0 | English only | 676,347 | 32.1 | |
| Never married | 513,796 | 28.7 | Language other than English | 1,432,165 | 67.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 880,820 | 49.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 731,814 | 34.7 | |
| Separated | 64,408 | 3.6 | Spanish | 1,248,616 | 59.2 | |
| Widowed | 124,103 | 6.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 658,721 | 31.2 | |
| Female | 102,796 | 5.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 155,369 | 7.4 | |
| Divorced | 206,388 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 62,059 | 2.9 | |
| Female | 124,839 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16,395 | 0.8 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,789 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 2,253,362 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 82,318 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 2,182,595 | 96.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 27,002 | 32.8 | Arab | 14,670 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,163 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,758 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 1,694,458 | 100.0 | Dutch | 6,901 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 91,555 | 5.4 | English | 44,587 | 2.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 21,715 | 1.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,358 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 57,478 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 500,532 | 100.0 | Greek | 4,835 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 41,535 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 6,451 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 1,286,009 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 51,094 | 2.3 | |
| With a disability | 300,048 | 23.3 | Italian | 52,545 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 53.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,390 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 985,961 | 76.7 | Norwegian | 3,960 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 67.9 | (X) | Polish | 22,028 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 291,165 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5,055 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 132,409 | 45.5 | Russian | 25,811 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6,950 | 0.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,604 | 0.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 690 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 2,108,512 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 14,001 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 1,059,057 | 50.2 | Swedish | 5,421 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 842,766 | 40.0 | Swiss | 1,908 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 693,888 | 32.9 | Ukrainian | 2,864 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 148,878 | 7.1 | United States or American | 89,239 | 4.0 | |
| Same state | 45,963 | 2.2 | Welsh | 2,850 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 102,915 | 4.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 160,282 | 7.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 206,689 | 9.8 | Other ancestries | 1,560,987 | 69.3 | |
| 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)
