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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 239,452 100.0
      enrolled in school 93,932 100.0   Native 228,107 95.3
Nursery school, preschool 5,023 5.3       Born in United States 224,332 93.7
Kindergarten 2,902 3.1           State of residence 127,005 53.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 23,327 24.8           Different state 97,327 40.6
High school (grades 9-12) 11,794 12.6       Born outside United States 3,775 1.6
College or graduate school 50,886 54.2   Foreign born 11,345 4.7
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 5,095 2.1
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 4,776 2.0
  Population 25 years and over 137,537 100.0       Not a citizen 6,569 2.7
Less than 9th grade 4,218 3.1        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 10,749 7.8   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 25,963 18.9     Total (excluding born at sea) 11,345 100.0
Some college, no degree 27,956 20.3   Europe 2,297 20.2
Associate degree 11,255 8.2   Asia 3,799 33.5
Bachelor's degree 33,040 24.0   Africa 895 7.9
Graduate or professional degree 24,356 17.7   Oceania 62 0.5
        Latin America 3,672 32.4
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.1 (X)   Northern America 620 5.5
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 41.7 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 225,718 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 197,181 100.0   English only 208,570 92.4
Never married 79,139 40.1   Language other than English 17,148 7.6
Now married, except separated 86,207 43.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 4,442 2.0
Separated 3,348 1.7   Spanish 8,248 3.7
Widowed 8,715 4.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 2,162 1.0
 Female 7,103 3.6   Other Indo-European languages 4,883 2.2
Divorced 19,772 10.0           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,040 0.5
 Female 12,063 6.1   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2,924 1.3
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,053 0.5
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 239,452 100.0
           under 18 years 3,370 100.0     Total ancestries reported 223,962 93.5
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 1,814 53.8   Arab 825 0.3
        Czech¹ 603 0.3
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 739 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 188,401 100.0   Dutch 2,694 1.1
Civilian veterans 20,616 10.9   English 26,015 10.9
        French (except Basque)¹ 6,427 2.7
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 1,133 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 24,538 10.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 61,746 100.0   Greek 1,136 0.5
With a disability 4,418 7.2   Hungarian 807 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 140,993 100.0   Irish¹ 22,632 9.5
With a disability 18,886 13.4   Italian 7,756 3.2
 Percent employed 62.6 (X)   Lithuanian 310 0.1
No disability 122,107 86.6   Norwegian 1,744 0.7
 Percent employed 78.9 (X)   Polish 3,744 1.6
     Population 65 years and over 18,692 100.0   Portuguese 267 0.1
With a disability 7,773 41.6   Russian 1,486 0.6
        Scotch-Irish 6,186 2.6
        Scottish 6,100 2.5
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 417 0.2
  Population 5 years and over 225,718 100.0   Subsaharan African 3,241 1.4
Same house in 1995 92,569 41.0   Swedish 1,943 0.8
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 127,763 56.6   Swiss 443 0.2
 Same county 58,470 25.9   Ukrainian 364 0.2
 Different county 69,293 30.7   United States or American 16,806 7.0
  Same state 44,066 19.5   Welsh 1,533 0.6
  Different state 25,227 11.2   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2,640 1.1
Elsewhere in 1995 5,386 2.4   Other ancestries 81,433 34.0
 
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.
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