DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Lee 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 | 20,119 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 5,138 | 100.0 | Native | 19,701 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 361 | 7.0 | Born in United States | 19,625 | 97.5 | |
| Kindergarten | 387 | 7.5 | State of residence | 17,210 | 85.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 2,453 | 47.7 | Different state | 2,415 | 12.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 1,472 | 28.6 | Born outside United States | 76 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 465 | 9.1 | Foreign born | 418 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 332 | 1.7 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 26 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 12,918 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 392 | 1.9 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 1,845 | 14.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 3,142 | 24.3 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 4,540 | 35.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 418 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 1,712 | 13.3 | Europe | 21 | 5.0 | |
| Associate degree | 495 | 3.8 | Asia | 15 | 3.6 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 845 | 6.5 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 339 | 2.6 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 382 | 91.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 61.4 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 9.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 18,833 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 15,901 | 100.0 | English only | 17,808 | 94.6 | |
| Never married | 4,894 | 30.8 | Language other than English | 1,025 | 5.4 | |
| Now married, except separated | 7,355 | 46.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 546 | 2.9 | |
| Separated | 854 | 5.4 | Spanish | 713 | 3.8 | |
| Widowed | 1,327 | 8.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 442 | 2.3 | |
| Female | 1,100 | 6.9 | Other Indo-European languages | 200 | 1.1 | |
| Divorced | 1,471 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 47 | 0.2 | |
| Female | 746 | 4.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 15 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 15 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 20,119 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 974 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 16,787 | 83.4 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 563 | 57.8 | Arab | 14 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 5 | 0.0 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 5 | 0.0 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 14,923 | 100.0 | Dutch | 65 | 0.3 | |
| Civilian veterans | 1,622 | 10.9 | English | 989 | 4.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 118 | 0.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 8 | 0.0 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 512 | 2.5 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 4,659 | 100.0 | Greek | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 379 | 8.1 | Hungarian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 10,144 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 536 | 2.7 | |
| With a disability | 2,434 | 24.0 | Italian | 63 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 45.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 7,710 | 76.0 | Norwegian | 5 | 0.0 | |
| Percent employed | 72.6 | (X) | Polish | 39 | 0.2 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 2,340 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 0 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 1,125 | 48.1 | Russian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 306 | 1.5 | ||||
| Scottish | 139 | 0.7 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 18,833 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 163 | 0.8 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 12,728 | 67.6 | Swedish | 21 | 0.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 5,741 | 30.5 | Swiss | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same county | 2,828 | 15.0 | Ukrainian | 6 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 2,913 | 15.5 | United States or American | 1,937 | 9.6 | |
| Same state | 2,044 | 10.9 | Welsh | 28 | 0.1 | |
| Different state | 869 | 4.6 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 364 | 1.9 | Other ancestries | 11,823 | 58.8 | |
| 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. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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