DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Pinellas 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 | 921,482 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 190,563 | 100.0 | Native | 833,797 | 90.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 15,172 | 8.0 | Born in United States | 820,144 | 89.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 9,629 | 5.1 | State of residence | 245,793 | 26.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 84,563 | 44.4 | Different state | 574,351 | 62.3 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 39,753 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 13,653 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 41,446 | 21.7 | Foreign born | 87,685 | 9.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 32,841 | 3.6 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 40,786 | 4.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 686,094 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 46,899 | 5.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 26,921 | 3.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 82,777 | 12.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 203,495 | 29.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 87,685 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 163,849 | 23.9 | Europe | 35,259 | 40.2 | |
| Associate degree | 51,817 | 7.6 | Asia | 17,264 | 19.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 103,324 | 15.1 | Africa | 1,981 | 2.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 53,911 | 7.9 | Oceania | 673 | 0.8 | |
| Latin America | 21,515 | 24.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 84.0 | (X) | Northern America | 10,993 | 12.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 22.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 876,588 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 773,291 | 100.0 | English only | 771,726 | 88.0 | |
| Never married | 169,162 | 21.9 | Language other than English | 104,862 | 12.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 400,443 | 51.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 39,353 | 4.5 | |
| Separated | 16,440 | 2.1 | Spanish | 39,287 | 4.5 | |
| Widowed | 80,602 | 10.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15,649 | 1.8 | |
| Female | 64,983 | 8.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 47,550 | 5.4 | |
| Divorced | 106,644 | 13.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14,886 | 1.7 | |
| Female | 60,867 | 7.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 13,570 | 1.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,573 | 0.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 921,482 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 12,346 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,016,792 | 110.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 5,729 | 46.4 | Arab | 5,137 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 6,518 | 0.7 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 4,238 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 743,230 | 100.0 | Dutch | 17,696 | 1.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 132,862 | 17.9 | English | 118,118 | 12.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 37,852 | 4.1 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 11,314 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 164,794 | 17.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 156,844 | 100.0 | Greek | 13,068 | 1.4 | |
| With a disability | 13,928 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 7,889 | 0.9 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 505,159 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 135,823 | 14.7 | |
| With a disability | 114,102 | 22.6 | Italian | 81,833 | 8.9 | |
| Percent employed | 60.7 | (X) | Lithuanian | 4,111 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 391,057 | 77.4 | Norwegian | 10,344 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 79.1 | (X) | Polish | 36,345 | 3.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 199,972 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 3,683 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 77,925 | 39.0 | Russian | 9,964 | 1.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 19,659 | 2.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 25,212 | 2.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 2,715 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 876,588 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 4,102 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 441,601 | 50.4 | Swedish | 14,904 | 1.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 411,433 | 46.9 | Swiss | 3,215 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 241,320 | 27.5 | Ukrainian | 4,173 | 0.5 | |
| Different county | 170,113 | 19.4 | United States or American | 58,031 | 6.3 | |
| Same state | 52,076 | 5.9 | Welsh | 7,870 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 118,037 | 13.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5,579 | 0.6 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23,554 | 2.7 | Other ancestries | 202,605 | 22.0 | |
| 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)
