
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Seminole 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 | 365,196 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 99,337 | 100.0 | Native | 331,911 | 90.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,333 | 7.4 | Born in United States | 316,386 | 86.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,426 | 5.5 | State of residence | 113,193 | 31.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 43,747 | 44.0 | Different state | 203,193 | 55.6 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 20,736 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 15,525 | 4.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 22,095 | 22.2 | Foreign born | 33,285 | 9.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 12,005 | 3.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 16,507 | 4.5 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 243,216 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 16,778 | 4.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 8,186 | 3.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 19,337 | 8.0 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 59,280 | 24.4 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 33,285 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 58,908 | 24.2 | Europe | 6,769 | 20.3 | |
| Associate degree | 22,014 | 9.1 | Asia | 7,205 | 21.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 51,235 | 21.1 | Africa | 1,344 | 4.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 24,256 | 10.0 | Oceania | 129 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 15,711 | 47.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.7 | (X) | Northern America | 2,127 | 6.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 31.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 341,949 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 288,255 | 100.0 | English only | 288,646 | 84.4 | |
| Never married | 71,780 | 24.9 | Language other than English | 53,303 | 15.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 162,707 | 56.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 17,628 | 5.2 | |
| Separated | 5,162 | 1.8 | Spanish | 35,438 | 10.4 | |
| Widowed | 15,876 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 12,355 | 3.6 | |
| Female | 13,189 | 4.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 11,018 | 3.2 | |
| Divorced | 32,730 | 11.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,847 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 18,969 | 6.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4,820 | 1.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,999 | 0.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 365,196 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 6,986 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 403,393 | 110.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,879 | 41.2 | Arab | 2,585 | 0.7 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,938 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,431 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 272,715 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,709 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 39,515 | 14.5 | English | 44,047 | 12.1 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 12,460 | 3.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,800 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 60,172 | 16.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 82,222 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,946 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 6,539 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 2,814 | 0.8 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 219,721 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 48,981 | 13.4 | |
| With a disability | 36,414 | 16.6 | Italian | 30,237 | 8.3 | |
| Percent employed | 65.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,036 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 183,307 | 83.4 | Norwegian | 3,868 | 1.1 | |
| Percent employed | 81.2 | (X) | Polish | 11,960 | 3.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 37,511 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,323 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 15,437 | 41.2 | Russian | 4,713 | 1.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,295 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 9,100 | 2.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,312 | 0.4 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 341,949 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,940 | 0.5 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 160,281 | 46.9 | Swedish | 4,926 | 1.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 170,676 | 49.9 | Swiss | 1,025 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 68,446 | 20.0 | Ukrainian | 952 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 102,230 | 29.9 | United States or American | 25,320 | 6.9 | |
| Same state | 55,117 | 16.1 | Welsh | 2,876 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 47,113 | 13.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5,167 | 1.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 10,992 | 3.2 | Other ancestries | 104,460 | 28.6 | |
| 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)

