DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Alachua 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 | 217,955 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 90,184 | 100.0 | Native | 202,060 | 92.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,021 | 4.5 | Born in United States | 197,459 | 90.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 2,168 | 2.4 | State of residence | 104,742 | 48.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 20,747 | 23.0 | Different state | 92,717 | 42.5 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 9,877 | 11.0 | Born outside United States | 4,601 | 2.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 53,371 | 59.2 | Foreign born | 15,895 | 7.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 8,150 | 3.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 5,956 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 123,524 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 9,939 | 4.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 4,592 | 3.7 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,166 | 8.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 25,033 | 20.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 15,895 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 24,052 | 19.5 | Europe | 3,075 | 19.3 | |
| Associate degree | 11,878 | 9.6 | Asia | 6,319 | 39.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 24,362 | 19.7 | Africa | 772 | 4.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 23,441 | 19.0 | Oceania | 71 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 4,842 | 30.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 88.1 | (X) | Northern America | 816 | 5.1 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 38.7 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 206,860 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 181,759 | 100.0 | English only | 183,049 | 88.5 | |
| Never married | 77,090 | 42.4 | Language other than English | 23,811 | 11.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 75,559 | 41.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,361 | 3.1 | |
| Separated | 3,325 | 1.8 | Spanish | 11,438 | 5.5 | |
| Widowed | 8,740 | 4.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,705 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 7,286 | 4.0 | Other Indo-European languages | 6,278 | 3.0 | |
| Divorced | 17,045 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,328 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 10,250 | 5.6 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 5,159 | 2.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,113 | 1.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 217,955 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,143 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 219,998 | 100.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,654 | 52.6 | Arab | 1,042 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,030 | 0.5 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 561 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 174,042 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,146 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 19,584 | 11.3 | English | 23,436 | 10.8 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 6,620 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,860 | 0.9 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 28,907 | 13.3 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 56,476 | 100.0 | Greek | 975 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,597 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 1,118 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 127,614 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 24,442 | 11.2 | |
| With a disability | 19,724 | 15.5 | Italian | 10,653 | 4.9 | |
| Percent employed | 55.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 431 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 107,890 | 84.5 | Norwegian | 2,017 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 74.7 | (X) | Polish | 5,501 | 2.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 20,262 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 440 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 8,501 | 42.0 | Russian | 2,507 | 1.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 5,054 | 2.3 | ||||
| Scottish | 4,989 | 2.3 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 267 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 206,860 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 2,458 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 82,529 | 39.9 | Swedish | 2,530 | 1.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 117,285 | 56.7 | Swiss | 549 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 48,318 | 23.4 | Ukrainian | 630 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 68,967 | 33.3 | United States or American | 15,903 | 7.3 | |
| Same state | 46,436 | 22.4 | Welsh | 1,751 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 22,531 | 10.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,984 | 0.9 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 7,046 | 3.4 | Other ancestries | 69,197 | 31.7 | |
| 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
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
