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 | 60,687 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 15,459 | 100.0 | Native | 59,493 | 98.0 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 1,460 | 9.4 | Born in United States | 59,062 | 97.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 935 | 6.0 | State of residence | 44,634 | 73.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 7,916 | 51.2 | Different state | 14,428 | 23.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 3,542 | 22.9 | Born outside United States | 431 | 0.7 | |
| College or graduate school | 1,606 | 10.4 | Foreign born | 1,194 | 2.0 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 506 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 490 | 0.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 38,527 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 704 | 1.2 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 3,193 | 8.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 7,021 | 18.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 13,725 | 35.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 1,194 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 7,945 | 20.6 | Europe | 324 | 27.1 | |
| Associate degree | 1,619 | 4.2 | Asia | 356 | 29.8 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 3,439 | 8.9 | Africa | 16 | 1.3 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 1,585 | 4.1 | Oceania | 6 | 0.5 | |
| Latin America | 430 | 36.0 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 73.5 | (X) | Northern America | 62 | 5.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 13.0 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 55,798 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 46,069 | 100.0 | English only | 53,401 | 95.7 | |
| Never married | 9,619 | 20.9 | Language other than English | 2,397 | 4.3 | |
| Now married, except separated | 28,592 | 62.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 977 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 921 | 2.0 | Spanish | 1,391 | 2.5 | |
| Widowed | 2,627 | 5.7 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 634 | 1.1 | |
| Female | 2,203 | 4.8 | Other Indo-European languages | 549 | 1.0 | |
| Divorced | 4,310 | 9.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 184 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 2,364 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 406 | 0.7 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 159 | 0.3 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 60,687 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 1,517 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 46,708 | 77.0 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 579 | 38.2 | Arab | 65 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 86 | 0.1 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 55 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 43,409 | 100.0 | Dutch | 578 | 1.0 | |
| Civilian veterans | 5,139 | 11.8 | English | 5,490 | 9.0 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 830 | 1.4 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 114 | 0.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 3,988 | 6.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 14,649 | 100.0 | Greek | 78 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 1,128 | 7.7 | Hungarian | 97 | 0.2 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 35,127 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 5,125 | 8.4 | |
| With a disability | 6,769 | 19.3 | Italian | 833 | 1.4 | |
| Percent employed | 55.9 | (X) | Lithuanian | 55 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 28,358 | 80.7 | Norwegian | 150 | 0.2 | |
| Percent employed | 80.5 | (X) | Polish | 586 | 1.0 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 5,471 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 40 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,698 | 49.3 | Russian | 53 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,215 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,057 | 1.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 37 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 55,798 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 224 | 0.4 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 28,149 | 50.4 | Swedish | 102 | 0.2 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 27,111 | 48.6 | Swiss | 16 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 10,763 | 19.3 | Ukrainian | 14 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 16,348 | 29.3 | United States or American | 13,014 | 21.4 | |
| Same state | 13,119 | 23.5 | Welsh | 166 | 0.3 | |
| Different state | 3,229 | 5.8 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 138 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 538 | 1.0 | Other ancestries | 12,502 | 20.6 | |
| 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)
