DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lee 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 | 24,757 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,626 | 100.0 | Native | 24,344 | 98.3 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 447 | 5.9 | Born in United States | 24,162 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 406 | 5.3 | State of residence | 17,138 | 69.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,692 | 48.4 | Different state | 7,024 | 28.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,945 | 25.5 | Born outside United States | 182 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,136 | 14.9 | Foreign born | 413 | 1.7 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 227 | 0.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 206 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 15,036 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 207 | 0.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 618 | 4.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 2,192 | 14.6 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 5,393 | 35.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 413 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,360 | 22.3 | Europe | 76 | 18.4 | |
| Associate degree | 923 | 6.1 | Asia | 165 | 40.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,700 | 11.3 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 850 | 5.7 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 140 | 33.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.3 | (X) | Northern America | 32 | 7.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 17.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 22,942 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 18,577 | 100.0 | English only | 22,178 | 96.7 | |
| Never married | 3,682 | 19.8 | Language other than English | 764 | 3.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 12,094 | 65.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 160 | 0.7 | |
| Separated | 393 | 2.1 | Spanish | 411 | 1.8 | |
| Widowed | 809 | 4.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 93 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 652 | 3.5 | Other Indo-European languages | 237 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 1,599 | 8.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 57 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 921 | 5.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 113 | 0.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 10 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 24,757 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 495 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 18,486 | 74.7 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 297 | 60.0 | Arab | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 37 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 28 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 17,103 | 100.0 | Dutch | 278 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,498 | 14.6 | English | 1,902 | 7.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 367 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 85 | 0.3 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,462 | 5.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 6,790 | 100.0 | Greek | 49 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 554 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 13,729 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 2,188 | 8.8 | |
| With a disability | 2,406 | 17.5 | Italian | 419 | 1.7 | |
| Percent employed | 60.2 | (X) | Lithuanian | 11 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 11,323 | 82.5 | Norwegian | 104 | 0.4 | |
| Percent employed | 82.9 | (X) | Polish | 107 | 0.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,550 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 55 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 727 | 46.9 | Russian | 52 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 461 | 1.9 | ||||
| Scottish | 416 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 46 | 0.2 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 22,942 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,134 | 52.9 | Swedish | 52 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 10,407 | 45.4 | Swiss | 23 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 3,675 | 16.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 6,732 | 29.3 | United States or American | 4,685 | 18.9 | |
| Same state | 4,857 | 21.2 | Welsh | 198 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 1,875 | 8.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 35 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 401 | 1.7 | Other ancestries | 5,351 | 21.6 | |
| 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
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