
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Suwannee 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 | 34,844 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,960 | 100.0 | Native | 33,213 | 95.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 548 | 6.9 | Born in United States | 33,017 | 94.8 | |
| Kindergarten | 481 | 6.0 | State of residence | 20,686 | 59.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,975 | 49.9 | Different state | 12,331 | 35.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,003 | 25.2 | Born outside United States | 196 | 0.6 | |
| College or graduate school | 953 | 12.0 | Foreign born | 1,631 | 4.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,036 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 390 | 1.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 23,492 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,241 | 3.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,019 | 8.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,267 | 18.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,118 | 38.8 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,631 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,432 | 18.9 | Europe | 160 | 9.8 | |
| Associate degree | 1,194 | 5.1 | Asia | 127 | 7.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,692 | 7.2 | Africa | 14 | 0.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 770 | 3.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 1,272 | 78.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.2 | (X) | Northern America | 58 | 3.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 32,789 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 27,965 | 100.0 | English only | 30,392 | 92.7 | |
| Never married | 5,043 | 18.0 | Language other than English | 2,397 | 7.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 16,750 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,287 | 3.9 | |
| Separated | 534 | 1.9 | Spanish | 1,965 | 6.0 | |
| Widowed | 2,395 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,106 | 3.4 | |
| Female | 1,947 | 7.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 316 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 3,243 | 11.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 132 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 1,790 | 6.4 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 53 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 29 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,844 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 960 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 28,482 | 81.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 573 | 59.7 | Arab | 61 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 82 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 96 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 26,479 | 100.0 | Dutch | 615 | 1.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 4,678 | 17.7 | English | 3,538 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 608 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 226 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 2,824 | 8.1 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,637 | 100.0 | Greek | 97 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 685 | 9.0 | Hungarian | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 19,103 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,267 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 5,662 | 29.6 | Italian | 635 | 1.8 | |
| Percent employed | 46.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 13,441 | 70.4 | Norwegian | 172 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 72.5 | (X) | Polish | 237 | 0.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,508 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 9 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 2,748 | 49.9 | Russian | 89 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 598 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 696 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 7 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 32,789 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 128 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 18,637 | 56.8 | Swedish | 395 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 13,633 | 41.6 | Swiss | 34 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 5,531 | 16.9 | Ukrainian | 15 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 8,102 | 24.7 | United States or American | 6,453 | 18.5 | |
| Same state | 6,009 | 18.3 | Welsh | 142 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 2,093 | 6.4 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 58 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 519 | 1.6 | Other ancestries | 7,359 | 21.1 | |
| 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)

