DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Ben Hill 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 | 17,484 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 4,520 | 100.0 | Native | 16,893 | 96.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 375 | 8.3 | Born in United States | 16,809 | 96.1 | |
| Kindergarten | 242 | 5.4 | State of residence | 13,669 | 78.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,223 | 49.2 | Different state | 3,140 | 18.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,089 | 24.1 | Born outside United States | 84 | 0.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 591 | 13.1 | Foreign born | 591 | 3.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 441 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 118 | 0.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,990 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 473 | 2.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,420 | 12.9 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,338 | 21.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,090 | 37.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 591 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,702 | 15.5 | Europe | 29 | 4.9 | |
| Associate degree | 394 | 3.6 | Asia | 25 | 4.2 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 643 | 5.9 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 403 | 3.7 | Oceania | 14 | 2.4 | |
| Latin America | 523 | 88.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 65.8 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.5 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 16,192 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 13,476 | 100.0 | English only | 15,386 | 95.0 | |
| Never married | 3,318 | 24.6 | Language other than English | 806 | 5.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 6,853 | 50.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 512 | 3.2 | |
| Separated | 421 | 3.1 | Spanish | 710 | 4.4 | |
| Widowed | 1,373 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 486 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 1,154 | 8.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 87 | 0.5 | |
| Divorced | 1,511 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 26 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 702 | 5.2 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 9 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 17,484 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 432 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 13,565 | 77.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 253 | 58.6 | Arab | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 12,643 | 100.0 | Dutch | 77 | 0.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,458 | 11.5 | English | 785 | 4.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 97 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 36 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 454 | 2.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,354 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 360 | 8.3 | Hungarian | 30 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 9,444 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,192 | 6.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,455 | 26.0 | Italian | 58 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 55.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 6,989 | 74.0 | Norwegian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Percent employed | 72.4 | (X) | Polish | 34 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,071 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,169 | 56.4 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 298 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 56 | 0.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 16,192 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 277 | 1.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 9,493 | 58.6 | Swedish | 40 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,299 | 38.9 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 4,144 | 25.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,155 | 13.3 | United States or American | 3,531 | 20.2 | |
| Same state | 1,409 | 8.7 | Welsh | 17 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 746 | 4.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 400 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 6,542 | 37.4 | |
| 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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