
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Manatee 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 | 264,002 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 52,553 | 100.0 | Native | 241,767 | 91.6 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 4,145 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 238,191 | 90.2 | |
| Kindergarten | 3,425 | 6.5 | State of residence | 74,792 | 28.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 25,770 | 49.0 | Different state | 163,399 | 61.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 11,030 | 21.0 | Born outside United States | 3,576 | 1.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 8,183 | 15.6 | Foreign born | 22,235 | 8.4 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 9,803 | 3.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 8,466 | 3.2 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 192,789 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 13,769 | 5.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 10,847 | 5.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 24,930 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 61,485 | 31.9 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 22,235 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 43,775 | 22.7 | Europe | 5,464 | 24.6 | |
| Associate degree | 11,693 | 6.1 | Asia | 2,195 | 9.9 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 26,077 | 13.5 | Africa | 328 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 13,982 | 7.3 | Oceania | 98 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 11,996 | 54.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 81.4 | (X) | Northern America | 2,154 | 9.7 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 20.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 249,004 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 217,761 | 100.0 | English only | 218,481 | 87.7 | |
| Never married | 40,033 | 18.4 | Language other than English | 30,523 | 12.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 127,117 | 58.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 13,438 | 5.4 | |
| Separated | 3,860 | 1.8 | Spanish | 19,924 | 8.0 | |
| Widowed | 22,296 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,825 | 3.9 | |
| Female | 17,907 | 8.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 8,167 | 3.3 | |
| Divorced | 24,455 | 11.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,596 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 13,682 | 6.3 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 1,674 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 848 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 264,002 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,360 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 273,027 | 103.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 2,033 | 46.6 | Arab | 774 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,492 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 980 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 208,514 | 100.0 | Dutch | 5,972 | 2.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 39,029 | 18.7 | English | 36,006 | 13.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 9,845 | 3.7 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 3,248 | 1.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 46,022 | 17.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 46,286 | 100.0 | Greek | 1,015 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 4,116 | 8.9 | Hungarian | 1,965 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 134,226 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 33,134 | 12.6 | |
| With a disability | 30,077 | 22.4 | Italian | 16,325 | 6.2 | |
| Percent employed | 60.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 908 | 0.3 | |
| No disability | 104,149 | 77.6 | Norwegian | 2,701 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 76.6 | (X) | Polish | 7,820 | 3.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 63,863 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 676 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 22,704 | 35.6 | Russian | 2,295 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 4,831 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 7,013 | 2.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 760 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 249,004 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,018 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 117,869 | 47.3 | Swedish | 4,068 | 1.5 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 124,755 | 50.1 | Swiss | 1,085 | 0.4 | |
| Same county | 60,103 | 24.1 | Ukrainian | 788 | 0.3 | |
| Different county | 64,652 | 26.0 | United States or American | 21,861 | 8.3 | |
| Same state | 24,664 | 9.9 | Welsh | 2,302 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 39,988 | 16.1 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,879 | 0.7 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 6,380 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 56,244 | 21.3 | |
| 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)

