DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Leon 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 | 15,335 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 3,454 | 100.0 | Native | 14,684 | 95.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 159 | 4.6 | Born in United States | 14,640 | 95.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 200 | 5.8 | State of residence | 12,122 | 79.0 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 1,814 | 52.5 | Different state | 2,518 | 16.4 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 943 | 27.3 | Born outside United States | 44 | 0.3 | |
| College or graduate school | 338 | 9.8 | Foreign born | 651 | 4.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 319 | 2.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 147 | 1.0 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 10,652 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 504 | 3.3 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 969 | 9.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 1,821 | 17.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,038 | 37.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 651 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 2,233 | 21.0 | Europe | 50 | 7.7 | |
| Associate degree | 297 | 2.8 | Asia | 12 | 1.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 903 | 8.5 | Africa | 4 | 0.6 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 391 | 3.7 | Oceania | 6 | 0.9 | |
| Latin America | 573 | 88.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.8 | (X) | Northern America | 6 | 0.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 12.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 14,502 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 12,357 | 100.0 | English only | 13,261 | 91.4 | |
| Never married | 1,955 | 15.8 | Language other than English | 1,241 | 8.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 8,100 | 65.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 463 | 3.2 | |
| Separated | 183 | 1.5 | Spanish | 1,111 | 7.7 | |
| Widowed | 1,100 | 8.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 442 | 3.0 | |
| Female | 880 | 7.1 | Other Indo-European languages | 110 | 0.8 | |
| Divorced | 1,019 | 8.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 19 | 0.1 | |
| Female | 508 | 4.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 16 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 15,335 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 369 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 12,386 | 80.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 268 | 72.6 | Arab | 4 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 123 | 0.8 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 23 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 11,618 | 100.0 | Dutch | 219 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,854 | 16.0 | English | 1,383 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 401 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 30 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,614 | 10.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 3,358 | 100.0 | Greek | 12 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 225 | 6.7 | Hungarian | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 8,032 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 1,780 | 11.6 | |
| With a disability | 1,932 | 24.1 | Italian | 141 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 49.0 | (X) | Lithuanian | 12 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 6,100 | 75.9 | Norwegian | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 70.5 | (X) | Polish | 187 | 1.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 3,001 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 4 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,265 | 42.2 | Russian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 262 | 1.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 196 | 1.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 14,502 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 60 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 8,298 | 57.2 | Swedish | 58 | 0.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 6,065 | 41.8 | Swiss | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,609 | 18.0 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 3,456 | 23.8 | United States or American | 2,313 | 15.1 | |
| Same state | 2,943 | 20.3 | Welsh | 28 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 513 | 3.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 139 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 3,481 | 22.7 | |
| 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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