
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Collier 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 | 251,377 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 46,873 | 100.0 | Native | 205,306 | 81.7 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 3,308 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 201,593 | 80.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,152 | 6.7 | State of residence | 48,772 | 19.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 22,844 | 48.7 | Different state | 152,821 | 60.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 10,877 | 23.2 | Born outside United States | 3,713 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,692 | 14.3 | Foreign born | 46,071 | 18.3 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 23,877 | 9.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 14,194 | 5.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 185,357 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 31,877 | 12.7 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 14,918 | 8.0 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 18,904 | 10.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 48,643 | 26.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 46,071 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 40,388 | 21.8 | Europe | 7,713 | 16.7 | |
| Associate degree | 10,747 | 5.8 | Asia | 1,343 | 2.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 33,700 | 18.2 | Africa | 234 | 0.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 18,057 | 9.7 | Oceania | 66 | 0.1 | |
| Latin America | 34,292 | 74.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.8 | (X) | Northern America | 2,423 | 5.3 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 27.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 238,077 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 209,898 | 100.0 | English only | 178,413 | 74.9 | |
| Never married | 39,271 | 18.7 | Language other than English | 59,664 | 25.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 130,223 | 62.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 32,757 | 13.8 | |
| Separated | 3,293 | 1.6 | Spanish | 42,158 | 17.7 | |
| Widowed | 15,689 | 7.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 25,362 | 10.7 | |
| Female | 12,254 | 5.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 15,794 | 6.6 | |
| Divorced | 21,422 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,670 | 2.8 | |
| Female | 12,038 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 749 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 356 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 251,377 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,064 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 263,724 | 104.9 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,346 | 33.1 | Arab | 920 | 0.4 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,508 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,142 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 201,534 | 100.0 | Dutch | 4,115 | 1.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 35,425 | 17.6 | English | 29,354 | 11.7 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 8,057 | 3.2 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 2,707 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 40,059 | 15.9 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 43,607 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,205 | 0.5 | |
| With a disability | 4,058 | 9.3 | Hungarian | 1,766 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 132,305 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 33,422 | 13.3 | |
| With a disability | 28,708 | 21.7 | Italian | 20,325 | 8.1 | |
| Percent employed | 63.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 759 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 103,597 | 78.3 | Norwegian | 3,242 | 1.3 | |
| Percent employed | 70.2 | (X) | Polish | 8,615 | 3.4 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 59,958 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 793 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 16,359 | 27.3 | Russian | 2,239 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,971 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 6,107 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 724 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 238,077 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 516 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 105,247 | 44.2 | Swedish | 4,518 | 1.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 118,111 | 49.6 | Swiss | 1,286 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 54,147 | 22.7 | Ukrainian | 627 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 63,964 | 26.9 | United States or American | 14,889 | 5.9 | |
| Same state | 17,020 | 7.1 | Welsh | 1,946 | 0.8 | |
| Different state | 46,944 | 19.7 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 6,117 | 2.4 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 14,719 | 6.2 | Other ancestries | 62,795 | 25.0 | |
| 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)

