DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sarasota 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 | 325,957 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 55,269 | 100.0 | Native | 295,541 | 90.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,076 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 292,043 | 89.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,040 | 5.5 | State of residence | 62,414 | 19.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 25,563 | 46.3 | Different state | 229,629 | 70.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 12,380 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 3,498 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 10,210 | 18.5 | Foreign born | 30,416 | 9.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 11,219 | 3.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 14,642 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 256,802 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15,774 | 4.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,674 | 3.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 24,490 | 9.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 77,323 | 30.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 30,416 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 59,708 | 23.3 | Europe | 14,145 | 46.5 | |
| Associate degree | 16,161 | 6.3 | Asia | 2,605 | 8.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 43,886 | 17.1 | Africa | 407 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 26,560 | 10.3 | Oceania | 173 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 9,533 | 31.3 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.1 | (X) | Northern America | 3,553 | 11.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.4 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 313,327 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 281,890 | 100.0 | English only | 280,340 | 89.5 | |
| Never married | 45,435 | 16.1 | Language other than English | 32,987 | 10.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 168,296 | 59.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13,211 | 4.2 | |
| Separated | 4,323 | 1.5 | Spanish | 13,751 | 4.4 | |
| Widowed | 31,321 | 11.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,726 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 25,196 | 8.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 15,966 | 5.1 | |
| Divorced | 32,515 | 11.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,992 | 1.6 | |
| Female | 18,832 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,830 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 991 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 325,957 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,848 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 357,937 | 109.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,723 | 44.8 | Arab | 1,229 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,454 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,531 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 273,207 | 100.0 | Dutch | 7,065 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 53,901 | 19.7 | English | 48,073 | 14.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 14,222 | 4.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,062 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 65,642 | 20.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 47,671 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,822 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 3,854 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 3,649 | 1.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 161,990 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 46,862 | 14.4 | |
| With a disability | 32,307 | 19.9 | Italian | 25,082 | 7.7 | |
| Percent employed | 62.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,307 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 129,683 | 80.1 | Norwegian | 3,592 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 74.5 | (X) | Polish | 14,054 | 4.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 98,609 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,037 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 32,195 | 32.6 | Russian | 5,463 | 1.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,267 | 2.2 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,610 | 2.9 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,190 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 313,327 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 819 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 160,973 | 51.4 | Swedish | 6,218 | 1.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 144,489 | 46.1 | Swiss | 1,962 | 0.6 | |
| Same county | 69,935 | 22.3 | Ukrainian | 2,102 | 0.6 | |
| Different county | 74,554 | 23.8 | United States or American | 23,253 | 7.1 | |
| Same state | 21,157 | 6.8 | Welsh | 3,346 | 1.0 | |
| Different state | 53,397 | 17.0 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,190 | 0.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7,865 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 53,834 | 16.5 | |
| 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
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