
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Wakulla 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 | 22,863 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,852 | 100.0 | Native | 22,529 | 98.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 516 | 8.8 | Born in United States | 22,341 | 97.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 311 | 5.3 | State of residence | 14,091 | 61.6 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,745 | 46.9 | Different state | 8,250 | 36.1 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,486 | 25.4 | Born outside United States | 188 | 0.8 | |
| College or graduate school | 794 | 13.6 | Foreign born | 334 | 1.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 75 | 0.3 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 184 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,211 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 150 | 0.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 962 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,324 | 15.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,316 | 34.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 334 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,319 | 21.8 | Europe | 84 | 25.1 | |
| Associate degree | 897 | 5.9 | Asia | 123 | 36.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,539 | 10.1 | Africa | 33 | 9.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 854 | 5.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 67 | 20.1 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 78.4 | (X) | Northern America | 27 | 8.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 21,496 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,051 | 100.0 | English only | 20,576 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 3,743 | 20.7 | Language other than English | 920 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 10,284 | 57.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 250 | 1.2 | |
| Separated | 365 | 2.0 | Spanish | 652 | 3.0 | |
| Widowed | 1,049 | 5.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 160 | 0.7 | |
| Female | 803 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 105 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 2,610 | 14.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 1,269 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 120 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 60 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 22,863 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 546 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 17,381 | 76.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 340 | 62.3 | Arab | 48 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 18 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 32 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 16,989 | 100.0 | Dutch | 505 | 2.2 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,729 | 16.1 | English | 2,338 | 10.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 393 | 1.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 161 | 0.7 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,773 | 7.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 5,363 | 100.0 | Greek | 30 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 429 | 8.0 | Hungarian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 12,788 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,408 | 10.5 | |
| With a disability | 2,755 | 21.5 | Italian | 533 | 2.3 | |
| Percent employed | 60.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 19 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 10,033 | 78.5 | Norwegian | 120 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 78.7 | (X) | Polish | 189 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,206 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 10 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 863 | 39.1 | Russian | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 698 | 3.1 | ||||
| Scottish | 545 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 15 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 21,496 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 50 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,000 | 55.8 | Swedish | 168 | 0.7 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 9,433 | 43.9 | Swiss | 25 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,041 | 14.1 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,392 | 29.7 | United States or American | 3,058 | 13.4 | |
| Same state | 4,861 | 22.6 | Welsh | 89 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 1,531 | 7.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 20 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 63 | 0.3 | Other ancestries | 4,103 | 17.9 | |
| 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)

