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DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics:  2000
Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data
Geographic Area: Alachua city, Florida

NOTE: Data based on a sample except in P3, P4, H3, and H4. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, definitions, and count corrections see http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/datanotes/expsf3.htm.


Subject

Number

Percent

 

 

 

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

 

 

Population 3 years and over enrolled in school

1,786

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

110

6.2

Kindergarten

87

4.9

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

866

48.5

High school (grades 9-12)

433

24.2

College or graduate school

290

16.2

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

3,833

100.0

Less than 9th grade

277

7.2

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

376

9.8

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

923

24.1

Some college, no degree

782

20.4

Associate degree

443

11.6

Bachelor's degree

620

16.2

Graduate or professional degree

412

10.7

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

83.0

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

26.9

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

4,514

100.0

Never married

1,163

25.8

Now married, except separated

2,317

51.3

Separated

93

2.1

Widowed

441

9.8

Female

371

8.2

Divorced

500

11.1

Female

354

7.8

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years

135

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

73

54.1

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

4,230

100.0

Civilian veterans

564

13.3

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

1,518

100.0

With a disability

140

9.2

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

3,296

100.0

With a disability

724

22.0

Percent employed

51.2

(X)

No disability

2,572

78.0

Percent employed

79.4

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

734

100.0

With a disability

382

52.0

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

5,555

100.0

Same house in 1995

2,761

49.7

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

2,705

48.7

Same county

1,705

30.7

Different county

1,000

18.0

Same state

581

10.5

Different state

419

7.5

Elsewhere in 1995

89

1.6

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

5,932

100.0

Native

5,734

96.7

Born in United States

5,632

94.9

State of residence

3,592

60.6

Different state

2,040

34.4

Born outside United States

102

1.7

Foreign born

198

3.3

Entered 1990 to March 2000

74

1.2

Naturalized citizen

79

1.3

Not a citizen

119

2.0

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

198

100.0

Europe

88

44.4

Asia

31

15.7

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

68

34.3

Northern America

11

5.6

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

5,555

100.0

English only

5,271

94.9

Language other than English

284

5.1

Speak English less than 'very well

71

1.3

Spanish

180

3.2

Speak English less than "very well"

52

0.9

Other Indo-European languages

69

1.2

Speak English less than "very well"

13

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

35

0.6

Speak English less than "very well"

6

0.1

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

5,932

100.0

Total ancestries reported

5,822

98.1

Arab

9

0.2

Czech1

41

0.7

Danish

7

0.1

Dutch

217

3.7

English

493

8.3

French (except Basque)1

195

3.3

French Canadian1

50

0.8

German

567

9.6

Greek

38

0.6

Hungarian

48

0.8

Irish1

745

12.6

Italian

187

3.2

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

90

1.5

Polish

123

2.1

Portuguese

24

0.4

Russian

7

0.1

Scotch-Irish

114

1.9

Scottish

89

1.5

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

122

2.1

Swedish

72

1.2

Swiss

5

0.1

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

348

5.9

Welsh

39

0.7

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

8

0.1

Other ancestries

2,184

36.8

(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.
Ancestry Code List (PDF 35KB)
Place of Birth Code List (PDF 74KB)
Language Code List (PDF 17KB)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P18, P19, P21, P22, P24, P36, P37, P39, P42, PCT8, PCT16, PCT17, and PCT19



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