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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: Sumter County, Alabama

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

4,704

100.0

Nursery school, preschool

338

7.2

Kindergarten

229

4.9

Elementary school (grades 1-8)

2,062

43.8

High school (grades 9-12)

1,000

21.3

College or graduate school

1,075

22.9

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT

 

 

Population 25 years and over

8,731

100.0

Less than 9th grade

1,287

14.7

9th to 12th grade, no diploma

1,790

20.5

High school graduate (includes equivalency)

2,719

31.1

Some college, no degree

1,562

17.9

Associate degree

287

3.3

Bachelor's degree

639

7.3

Graduate or professional degree

447

5.1

 

 

 

Percent high school graduate or higher

64.8

(X)

Percent bachelor's degree or higher

12.4

(X)

 

 

 

MARITAL STATUS

 

 

Population 15 years and over

11,247

100.0

Never married

4,140

36.8

Now married, except separated

4,470

39.7

Separated

425

3.8

Widowed

1,218

10.8

Female

960

8.5

Divorced

994

8.8

Female

584

5.2

 

 

 

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS

 

 

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

552

100.0

Grandparent responsible for grandchildren

305

55.3

 

 

 

VETERAN STATUS

 

 

Civilian population 18 years and over

10,492

100.0

Civilian veterans

842

8.0

 

 

 

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION

 

 

Population 5 to 20 years

4,027

100.0

With a disability

466

11.6

 

 

 

Population 21 to 64 years

7,562

100.0

With a disability

2,044

27.0

Percent employed

36.7

(X)

No disability

5,518

73.0

Percent employed

62.2

(X)

 

 

 

Population 65 years and over

1,950

100.0

With a disability

1,039

53.3

 

 

 

RESIDENCE IN 1995

 

 

Population 5 years and over

13,744

100.0

Same house in 1995

9,222

67.1

Different house in the U.S. in 1995

4,448

32.4

Same county

2,575

18.7

Different county

1,873

13.6

Same state

980

7.1

Different state

893

6.5

Elsewhere in 1995

74

0.5

 

 

 

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH

 

 

Total population

14,798

100.0

Native

14,728

99.5

Born in United States

14,670

99.1

State of residence

10,911

73.7

Different state

3,759

25.4

Born outside United States

58

0.4

Foreign born

70

0.5

Entered 1990 to March 2000

21

0.1

Naturalized citizen

41

0.3

Not a citizen

29

0.2

 

 

 

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN

 

 

Total (excluding born at sea)

70

100.0

Europe

26

37.1

Asia

9

12.9

Africa

0

0.0

Oceania

0

0.0

Latin America

25

35.7

Northern America

10

14.3

 

 

 

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME

 

 

Population 5 years and over

13,744

100.0

English only

13,460

97.9

Language other than English

284

2.1

Speak English less than 'very well

128

0.9

Spanish

209

1.5

Speak English less than "very well"

85

0.6

Other Indo-European languages

64

0.5

Speak English less than "very well"

34

0.2

Asian and Pacific Island languages

11

0.1

Speak English less than "very well"

9

0.1

 

 

 

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)

 

 

Total population

14,798

100.0

Total ancestries reported

11,490

77.6

Arab

9

0.1

Czech1

0

0.0

Danish

4

0.0

Dutch

81

0.5

English

443

3.0

French (except Basque)1

68

0.5

French Canadian1

28

0.2

German

252

1.7

Greek

4

0.0

Hungarian

0

0.0

Irish1

375

2.5

Italian

41

0.3

Lithuanian

0

0.0

Norwegian

3

0.0

Polish

39

0.3

Portuguese

0

0.0

Russian

6

0.0

Scotch-Irish

209

1.4

Scottish

38

0.3

Slovak

0

0.0

Subsaharan African

122

0.8

Swedish

7

0.0

Swiss

5

0.0

Ukrainian

0

0.0

United States or American

782

5.3

Welsh

16

0.1

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups)

7

0.0

Other ancestries

8,951

60.5

(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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