
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: St. Johns 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 | 123,135 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 30,609 | 100.0 | Native | 117,097 | 95.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,142 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 115,243 | 93.6 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,595 | 5.2 | State of residence | 43,629 | 35.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 14,039 | 45.9 | Different state | 71,614 | 58.2 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,408 | 20.9 | Born outside United States | 1,854 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 6,425 | 21.0 | Foreign born | 6,038 | 4.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 1,395 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 3,604 | 2.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 86,199 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 2,434 | 2.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,865 | 3.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 8,172 | 9.5 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 21,117 | 24.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 6,038 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 19,245 | 22.3 | Europe | 2,927 | 48.5 | |
| Associate degree | 6,240 | 7.2 | Asia | 1,131 | 18.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 18,834 | 21.8 | Africa | 153 | 2.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 9,726 | 11.3 | Oceania | 82 | 1.4 | |
| Latin America | 1,059 | 17.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.2 | (X) | Northern America | 686 | 11.4 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 33.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 116,709 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 99,753 | 100.0 | English only | 108,870 | 93.3 | |
| Never married | 20,171 | 20.2 | Language other than English | 7,839 | 6.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 59,769 | 59.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,973 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 1,552 | 1.6 | Spanish | 3,572 | 3.1 | |
| Widowed | 6,616 | 6.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 945 | 0.8 | |
| Female | 5,416 | 5.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 3,275 | 2.8 | |
| Divorced | 11,645 | 11.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 708 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 6,710 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 696 | 0.6 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 262 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 123,135 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 2,043 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 131,148 | 106.5 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 936 | 45.8 | Arab | 401 | 0.3 | |
| Czech¹ | 684 | 0.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 557 | 0.5 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 94,376 | 100.0 | Dutch | 2,140 | 1.7 | |
| Civilian veterans | 16,940 | 17.9 | English | 19,112 | 15.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 4,774 | 3.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 1,260 | 1.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 19,724 | 16.0 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 25,811 | 100.0 | Greek | 711 | 0.6 | |
| With a disability | 2,171 | 8.4 | Hungarian | 912 | 0.7 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 70,359 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 19,044 | 15.5 | |
| With a disability | 13,159 | 18.7 | Italian | 8,480 | 6.9 | |
| Percent employed | 67.3 | (X) | Lithuanian | 444 | 0.4 | |
| No disability | 57,200 | 81.3 | Norwegian | 1,224 | 1.0 | |
| Percent employed | 76.8 | (X) | Polish | 3,729 | 3.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 18,900 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 361 | 0.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,144 | 32.5 | Russian | 1,185 | 1.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 3,127 | 2.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 3,886 | 3.2 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 322 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 116,709 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 275 | 0.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 53,548 | 45.9 | Swedish | 1,668 | 1.4 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 61,520 | 52.7 | Swiss | 386 | 0.3 | |
| Same county | 21,564 | 18.5 | Ukrainian | 512 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 39,956 | 34.2 | United States or American | 11,908 | 9.7 | |
| Same state | 17,389 | 14.9 | Welsh | 1,135 | 0.9 | |
| Different state | 22,567 | 19.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 216 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 1,641 | 1.4 | Other ancestries | 22,971 | 18.7 | |
| 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)

