
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Levy 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 | 34,450 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 7,753 | 100.0 | Native | 33,556 | 97.4 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 520 | 6.7 | Born in United States | 33,162 | 96.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 453 | 5.8 | State of residence | 17,597 | 51.1 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 3,940 | 50.8 | Different state | 15,565 | 45.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,910 | 24.6 | Born outside United States | 394 | 1.1 | |
| College or graduate school | 930 | 12.0 | Foreign born | 894 | 2.6 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 277 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 490 | 1.4 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 24,030 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 404 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,740 | 7.2 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,531 | 18.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,183 | 38.2 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 894 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 4,857 | 20.2 | Europe | 267 | 29.9 | |
| Associate degree | 1,166 | 4.9 | Asia | 104 | 11.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 1,649 | 6.9 | Africa | 31 | 3.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 904 | 3.8 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 370 | 41.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.9 | (X) | Northern America | 122 | 13.6 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 10.6 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 32,501 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 27,842 | 100.0 | English only | 30,528 | 93.9 | |
| Never married | 5,465 | 19.6 | Language other than English | 1,973 | 6.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 15,838 | 56.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 769 | 2.4 | |
| Separated | 691 | 2.5 | Spanish | 1,488 | 4.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,409 | 8.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 676 | 2.1 | |
| Female | 1,865 | 6.7 | Other Indo-European languages | 378 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 3,439 | 12.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 65 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 1,908 | 6.9 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 81 | 0.2 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13 | 0.0 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 34,450 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 676 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 29,841 | 86.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 304 | 45.0 | Arab | 66 | 0.2 | |
| Czech¹ | 39 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 44 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 26,280 | 100.0 | Dutch | 571 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,080 | 19.3 | English | 3,867 | 11.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,038 | 3.0 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 382 | 1.1 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,074 | 11.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,322 | 100.0 | Greek | 53 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 823 | 11.2 | Hungarian | 134 | 0.4 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 18,530 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 3,906 | 11.3 | |
| With a disability | 5,142 | 27.7 | Italian | 1,156 | 3.4 | |
| Percent employed | 42.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 21 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 13,388 | 72.3 | Norwegian | 178 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 70.2 | (X) | Polish | 537 | 1.6 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,085 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 92 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 2,962 | 48.7 | Russian | 100 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 619 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 720 | 2.1 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 45 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 32,501 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 94 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 17,737 | 54.6 | Swedish | 259 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 14,467 | 44.5 | Swiss | 70 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 5,088 | 15.7 | Ukrainian | 12 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 9,379 | 28.9 | United States or American | 4,812 | 14.0 | |
| Same state | 6,530 | 20.1 | Welsh | 72 | 0.2 | |
| Different state | 2,849 | 8.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 54 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 297 | 0.9 | Other ancestries | 6,826 | 19.8 | |
| 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)

