
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Hillsborough 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 | 380,841 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 103,468 | 100.0 | Native | 355,048 | 93.2 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 7,242 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 350,553 | 92.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 5,172 | 5.0 | State of residence | 168,236 | 44.2 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 49,270 | 47.6 | Different state | 182,317 | 47.9 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 21,190 | 20.5 | Born outside United States | 4,495 | 1.2 | |
| College or graduate school | 20,594 | 19.9 | Foreign born | 25,793 | 6.8 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 11,512 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 10,465 | 2.7 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 251,908 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 15,328 | 4.0 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 10,865 | 4.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 21,988 | 8.7 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 69,169 | 27.5 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 25,793 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 51,234 | 20.3 | Europe | 7,240 | 28.1 | |
| Associate degree | 22,849 | 9.1 | Asia | 6,633 | 25.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 50,475 | 20.0 | Africa | 1,124 | 4.4 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 25,328 | 10.1 | Oceania | 113 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 5,223 | 20.2 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 87.0 | (X) | Northern America | 5,460 | 21.2 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 30.1 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 355,128 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 296,517 | 100.0 | English only | 310,121 | 87.3 | |
| Never married | 75,911 | 25.6 | Language other than English | 45,007 | 12.7 | |
| Now married, except separated | 169,425 | 57.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 14,864 | 4.2 | |
| Separated | 4,628 | 1.6 | Spanish | 9,712 | 2.7 | |
| Widowed | 16,376 | 5.5 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4,259 | 1.2 | |
| Female | 13,121 | 4.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 29,121 | 8.2 | |
| Divorced | 30,177 | 10.2 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 7,856 | 2.2 | |
| Female | 16,865 | 5.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4,580 | 1.3 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 2,265 | 0.6 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 380,841 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 4,832 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 455,362 | 119.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,502 | 31.1 | Arab | 2,206 | 0.6 | |
| Czech¹ | 1,198 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 953 | 0.3 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 280,526 | 100.0 | Dutch | 3,346 | 0.9 | |
| Civilian veterans | 40,291 | 14.4 | English | 54,416 | 14.3 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 56,701 | 14.9 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 50,150 | 13.2 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 32,665 | 8.6 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 86,850 | 100.0 | Greek | 6,653 | 1.7 | |
| With a disability | 7,460 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 1,289 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 226,348 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 76,569 | 20.1 | |
| With a disability | 36,826 | 16.3 | Italian | 31,824 | 8.4 | |
| Percent employed | 64.8 | (X) | Lithuanian | 2,965 | 0.8 | |
| No disability | 189,522 | 83.7 | Norwegian | 2,843 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 84.0 | (X) | Polish | 18,051 | 4.7 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 37,965 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5,089 | 1.3 | |
| With a disability | 14,915 | 39.3 | Russian | 3,532 | 0.9 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 7,574 | 2.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 13,449 | 3.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 532 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 355,128 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,235 | 0.3 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 190,183 | 53.6 | Swedish | 6,978 | 1.8 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 156,149 | 44.0 | Swiss | 761 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 90,858 | 25.6 | Ukrainian | 1,374 | 0.4 | |
| Different county | 65,291 | 18.4 | United States or American | 19,445 | 5.1 | |
| Same state | 17,318 | 4.9 | Welsh | 1,986 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 47,973 | 13.5 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 1,026 | 0.3 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 8,796 | 2.5 | Other ancestries | 50,552 | 13.3 | |
| 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)

