
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Walton 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 | 40,601 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 8,374 | 100.0 | Native | 39,289 | 96.8 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 398 | 4.8 | Born in United States | 38,673 | 95.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 539 | 6.4 | State of residence | 17,225 | 42.4 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 4,282 | 51.1 | Different state | 21,448 | 52.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 2,047 | 24.4 | Born outside United States | 616 | 1.5 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,108 | 13.2 | Foreign born | 1,312 | 3.2 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 429 | 1.1 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 663 | 1.6 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 28,838 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 649 | 1.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 2,121 | 7.4 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 4,813 | 16.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 9,323 | 32.3 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,312 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 6,117 | 21.2 | Europe | 558 | 42.5 | |
| Associate degree | 1,782 | 6.2 | Asia | 144 | 11.0 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 2,930 | 10.2 | Africa | 17 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,752 | 6.1 | Oceania | 51 | 3.9 | |
| Latin America | 418 | 31.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 76.0 | (X) | Northern America | 124 | 9.5 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 38,441 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 33,267 | 100.0 | English only | 36,490 | 94.9 | |
| Never married | 6,195 | 18.6 | Language other than English | 1,951 | 5.1 | |
| Now married, except separated | 19,334 | 58.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 663 | 1.7 | |
| Separated | 841 | 2.5 | Spanish | 1,016 | 2.6 | |
| Widowed | 2,578 | 7.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 408 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 1,948 | 5.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 760 | 2.0 | |
| Divorced | 4,319 | 13.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 164 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 2,224 | 6.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 114 | 0.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 74 | 0.2 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 40,601 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 662 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 36,523 | 90.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 269 | 40.6 | Arab | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 108 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 178 | 0.4 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 31,692 | 100.0 | Dutch | 584 | 1.4 | |
| Civilian veterans | 6,362 | 20.1 | English | 4,667 | 11.5 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,003 | 2.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 246 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 4,362 | 10.7 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 7,967 | 100.0 | Greek | 96 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 700 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 76 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 22,540 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,011 | 12.3 | |
| With a disability | 6,427 | 28.5 | Italian | 912 | 2.2 | |
| Percent employed | 57.6 | (X) | Lithuanian | 40 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 16,113 | 71.5 | Norwegian | 214 | 0.5 | |
| Percent employed | 71.5 | (X) | Polish | 353 | 0.9 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 6,140 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 33 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,996 | 48.8 | Russian | 108 | 0.3 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,494 | 3.7 | ||||
| Scottish | 979 | 2.4 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 38,441 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 156 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 20,192 | 52.5 | Swedish | 322 | 0.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 17,573 | 45.7 | Swiss | 36 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 6,566 | 17.1 | Ukrainian | 27 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 11,007 | 28.6 | United States or American | 7,280 | 17.9 | |
| Same state | 5,511 | 14.3 | Welsh | 276 | 0.7 | |
| Different state | 5,496 | 14.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 97 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 676 | 1.8 | Other ancestries | 7,829 | 19.3 | |
| 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)

