DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hillsborough 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 | 998,948 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 267,599 | 100.0 | Native | 883,797 | 88.5 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 19,609 | 7.3 | Born in United States | 845,021 | 84.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 15,407 | 5.8 | State of residence | 397,722 | 39.8 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 118,160 | 44.2 | Different state | 447,299 | 44.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 53,503 | 20.0 | Born outside United States | 38,776 | 3.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 60,920 | 22.8 | Foreign born | 115,151 | 11.5 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 49,054 | 4.9 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 47,127 | 4.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 653,841 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 68,024 | 6.8 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 41,209 | 6.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 84,574 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 174,283 | 26.7 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 115,151 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 139,426 | 21.3 | Europe | 13,997 | 12.2 | |
| Associate degree | 50,240 | 7.7 | Asia | 18,592 | 16.1 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 109,058 | 16.7 | Africa | 2,500 | 2.2 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 55,051 | 8.4 | Oceania | 213 | 0.2 | |
| Latin America | 75,990 | 66.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 80.8 | (X) | Northern America | 3,859 | 3.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 25.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 931,276 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 786,360 | 100.0 | English only | 736,750 | 79.1 | |
| Never married | 208,309 | 26.5 | Language other than English | 194,526 | 20.9 | |
| Now married, except separated | 409,627 | 52.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 81,296 | 8.7 | |
| Separated | 21,680 | 2.8 | Spanish | 149,070 | 16.0 | |
| Widowed | 50,003 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65,087 | 7.0 | |
| Female | 40,777 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 26,863 | 2.9 | |
| Divorced | 96,741 | 12.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,708 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 55,379 | 7.0 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14,418 | 1.5 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,138 | 0.8 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 998,948 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 21,217 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 1,021,152 | 102.2 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 9,643 | 45.4 | Arab | 4,894 | 0.5 | |
| Czech¹ | 3,955 | 0.4 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 2,449 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 742,418 | 100.0 | Dutch | 13,418 | 1.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 106,756 | 14.4 | English | 93,893 | 9.4 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 27,908 | 2.8 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 7,750 | 0.8 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 121,505 | 12.2 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 223,518 | 100.0 | Greek | 4,402 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 19,934 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 4,846 | 0.5 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 579,478 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 103,660 | 10.4 | |
| With a disability | 126,804 | 21.9 | Italian | 63,021 | 6.3 | |
| Percent employed | 59.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,936 | 0.2 | |
| No disability | 452,674 | 78.1 | Norwegian | 6,694 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 78.0 | (X) | Polish | 22,915 | 2.3 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 116,164 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 2,647 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 51,061 | 44.0 | Russian | 7,010 | 0.7 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 15,893 | 1.6 | ||||
| Scottish | 19,856 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 1,418 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 931,276 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 6,290 | 0.6 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 428,100 | 46.0 | Swedish | 8,992 | 0.9 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 465,524 | 50.0 | Swiss | 1,878 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 279,547 | 30.0 | Ukrainian | 2,048 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 185,977 | 20.0 | United States or American | 77,904 | 7.8 | |
| Same state | 70,020 | 7.5 | Welsh | 6,030 | 0.6 | |
| Different state | 115,957 | 12.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 12,957 | 1.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 37,652 | 4.0 | Other ancestries | 374,983 | 37.5 | |
| 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)
