
DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Sumter 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 | 104,646 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 30,345 | 100.0 | Native | 102,497 | 97.9 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 2,266 | 7.5 | Born in United States | 100,489 | 96.0 | |
| Kindergarten | 1,753 | 5.8 | State of residence | 69,335 | 66.3 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 13,813 | 45.5 | Different state | 31,154 | 29.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 6,789 | 22.4 | Born outside United States | 2,008 | 1.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 5,724 | 18.9 | Foreign born | 2,149 | 2.1 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 863 | 0.8 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 990 | 0.9 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 64,144 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 1,159 | 1.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 6,137 | 9.6 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 10,364 | 16.2 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 19,004 | 29.6 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 2,149 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 13,897 | 21.7 | Europe | 555 | 25.8 | |
| Associate degree | 4,595 | 7.2 | Asia | 788 | 36.7 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 6,858 | 10.7 | Africa | 32 | 1.5 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 3,289 | 5.1 | Oceania | 13 | 0.6 | |
| Latin America | 677 | 31.5 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 74.3 | (X) | Northern America | 84 | 3.9 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 15.8 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 96,890 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 80,089 | 100.0 | English only | 92,467 | 95.4 | |
| Never married | 21,339 | 26.6 | Language other than English | 4,423 | 4.6 | |
| Now married, except separated | 41,721 | 52.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,744 | 1.8 | |
| Separated | 3,328 | 4.2 | Spanish | 2,324 | 2.4 | |
| Widowed | 6,254 | 7.8 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 1,015 | 1.0 | |
| Female | 5,160 | 6.4 | Other Indo-European languages | 1,208 | 1.2 | |
| Divorced | 7,447 | 9.3 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 352 | 0.4 | |
| Female | 4,091 | 5.1 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 838 | 0.9 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 346 | 0.4 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 104,646 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 3,343 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 91,716 | 87.6 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 1,600 | 47.9 | Arab | 112 | 0.1 | |
| Czech¹ | 166 | 0.2 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 147 | 0.1 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 71,292 | 100.0 | Dutch | 883 | 0.8 | |
| Civilian veterans | 12,049 | 16.9 | English | 6,538 | 6.2 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 1,580 | 1.5 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 421 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 6,117 | 5.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 25,911 | 100.0 | Greek | 79 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 2,221 | 8.6 | Hungarian | 153 | 0.1 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 54,142 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 6,099 | 5.8 | |
| With a disability | 13,102 | 24.2 | Italian | 1,636 | 1.6 | |
| Percent employed | 51.1 | (X) | Lithuanian | 54 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 41,040 | 75.8 | Norwegian | 357 | 0.3 | |
| Percent employed | 74.1 | (X) | Polish | 877 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 11,448 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 64 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 5,987 | 52.3 | Russian | 84 | 0.1 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 1,881 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 1,535 | 1.5 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 54 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 96,890 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 1,255 | 1.2 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 53,251 | 55.0 | Swedish | 277 | 0.3 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 40,902 | 42.2 | Swiss | 119 | 0.1 | |
| Same county | 22,779 | 23.5 | Ukrainian | 69 | 0.1 | |
| Different county | 18,123 | 18.7 | United States or American | 13,350 | 12.8 | |
| Same state | 5,590 | 5.8 | Welsh | 464 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 12,533 | 12.9 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 261 | 0.2 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 2,737 | 2.8 | Other ancestries | 47,084 | 45.0 | |
| 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)

