DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sumter 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 | 33,200 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 9,860 | 100.0 | Native | 32,525 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 745 | 7.6 | Born in United States | 32,392 | 97.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 639 | 6.5 | State of residence | 27,180 | 81.9 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,127 | 41.9 | Different state | 5,212 | 15.7 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,130 | 21.6 | Born outside United States | 133 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 2,219 | 22.5 | Foreign born | 675 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 371 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 212 | 0.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 20,040 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 463 | 1.4 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,170 | 10.8 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,858 | 19.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 6,051 | 30.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 675 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 3,489 | 17.4 | Europe | 46 | 6.8 | |
| Associate degree | 603 | 3.0 | Asia | 161 | 23.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,242 | 11.2 | Africa | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,627 | 8.1 | Oceania | 16 | 2.4 | |
| Latin America | 437 | 64.7 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 69.9 | (X) | Northern America | 14 | 2.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 19.3 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 30,563 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 25,378 | 100.0 | English only | 28,907 | 94.6 | |
| Never married | 8,308 | 32.7 | Language other than English | 1,656 | 5.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 11,843 | 46.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 702 | 2.3 | |
| Separated | 843 | 3.3 | Spanish | 1,120 | 3.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,960 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 594 | 1.9 | |
| Female | 1,683 | 6.6 | Other Indo-European languages | 353 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 2,424 | 9.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 66 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,425 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 137 | 0.4 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 42 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 33,200 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 923 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 27,190 | 81.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 447 | 48.4 | Arab | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 21 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 59 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 23,898 | 100.0 | Dutch | 158 | 0.5 | |
| Civilian veterans | 2,542 | 10.6 | English | 1,788 | 5.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 287 | 0.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 48 | 0.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,391 | 4.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 8,380 | 100.0 | Greek | 57 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 683 | 8.2 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 17,653 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,513 | 4.6 | |
| With a disability | 4,472 | 25.3 | Italian | 321 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 54.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 13,181 | 74.7 | Norwegian | 111 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 76.5 | (X) | Polish | 186 | 0.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,576 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,636 | 45.7 | Russian | 24 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 452 | 1.4 | ||||
| Scottish | 358 | 1.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 6 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 30,563 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 92 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,666 | 57.8 | Swedish | 89 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 12,595 | 41.2 | Swiss | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 7,498 | 24.5 | Ukrainian | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 5,097 | 16.7 | United States or American | 4,164 | 12.5 | |
| Same state | 3,326 | 10.9 | Welsh | 48 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 1,771 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 302 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 15,864 | 47.8 | |
| 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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