
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pasco 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 | 344,765 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 67,546 | 100.0 | Native | 320,636 | 93.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,579 | 6.8 | Born in United States | 315,594 | 91.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,743 | 5.5 | State of residence | 86,800 | 25.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 32,424 | 48.0 | Different state | 228,794 | 66.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 15,510 | 23.0 | Born outside United States | 5,042 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 11,290 | 16.7 | Foreign born | 24,129 | 7.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 6,902 | 2.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 13,303 | 3.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 255,472 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 10,826 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 15,195 | 5.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 42,102 | 16.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 93,918 | 36.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 24,129 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 54,260 | 21.2 | Europe | 10,452 | 43.3 | |
| Associate degree | 16,449 | 6.4 | Asia | 3,193 | 13.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 22,581 | 8.8 | Africa | 567 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 10,967 | 4.3 | Oceania | 84 | 0.3 | |
| Latin America | 6,329 | 26.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 77.6 | (X) | Northern America | 3,504 | 14.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 326,884 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 286,760 | 100.0 | English only | 293,294 | 89.7 | |
| Never married | 47,640 | 16.6 | Language other than English | 33,590 | 10.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 170,399 | 59.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 11,647 | 3.6 | |
| Separated | 5,463 | 1.9 | Spanish | 15,411 | 4.7 | |
| Widowed | 32,138 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 5,964 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 25,409 | 8.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 14,579 | 4.5 | |
| Divorced | 31,120 | 10.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,506 | 1.4 | |
| Female | 16,807 | 5.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 2,170 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 672 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 344,765 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 5,785 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 373,409 | 108.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,556 | 44.2 | Arab | 1,335 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,474 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,121 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 275,376 | 100.0 | Dutch | 7,061 | 2.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 55,701 | 20.2 | English | 42,713 | 12.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 14,557 | 4.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,663 | 1.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 62,262 | 18.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 61,026 | 100.0 | Greek | 4,497 | 1.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,147 | 10.1 | Hungarian | 2,906 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 172,350 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 52,566 | 15.2 | |
| With a disability | 45,332 | 26.3 | Italian | 37,870 | 11.0 | |
| Percent employed | 53.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,250 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 127,018 | 73.7 | Norwegian | 3,794 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.6 | (X) | Polish | 16,113 | 4.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 89,778 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,476 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 36,308 | 40.4 | Russian | 2,307 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 6,417 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 7,769 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,290 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 326,884 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 383 | 0.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 170,739 | 52.2 | Swedish | 4,828 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 150,836 | 46.1 | Swiss | 897 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 61,414 | 18.8 | Ukrainian | 1,357 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 89,422 | 27.4 | United States or American | 32,386 | 9.4 | |
| Same state | 43,233 | 13.2 | Welsh | 2,899 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 46,189 | 14.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 978 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 5,309 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 55,240 | 16.0 | |
| 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)

