Tallahassee Florida Social and demographic information

Tallahassee Florida Social information

   

Summary - Age, Sex, Race

   
  More Census Data:      
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Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Tallahassee city
 

Subject Number Percent   Subject Number Percent

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 150,581 100.0
      enrolled in school 66,718 100.0   Native 142,298 94.5
Nursery school, preschool 2,591 3.9       Born in United States 139,668 92.8
Kindergarten 1,709 2.6           State of residence 77,694 51.6
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 11,323 17.0           Different state 61,974 41.2
High school (grades 9-12) 5,951 8.9       Born outside United States 2,630 1.7
College or graduate school 45,144 67.7   Foreign born 8,283 5.5
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 3,968 2.6
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 3,038 2.0
  Population 25 years and over 79,856 100.0       Not a citizen 5,245 3.5
Less than 9th grade 2,521 3.2        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 5,581 7.0   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 13,285 16.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 8,283 100.0
Some college, no degree 16,076 20.1   Europe 1,676 20.2
Associate degree 6,492 8.1   Asia 2,870 34.6
Bachelor's degree 20,055 25.1   Africa 498 6.0
Graduate or professional degree 15,846 19.8   Oceania 28 0.3
        Latin America 2,728 32.9
Percent high school graduate or higher 89.9 (X)   Northern America 483 5.8
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 45.0 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 142,852 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 128,639 100.0   English only 130,526 91.4
Never married 63,256 49.2   Language other than English 12,326 8.6
Now married, except separated 45,672 35.5           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,181 2.2
Separated 2,230 1.7   Spanish 5,838 4.1
Widowed 5,533 4.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 1,400 1.0
 Female 4,521 3.5   Other Indo-European languages 3,579 2.5
Divorced 11,948 9.3           Speak English less than '"very well"' 757 0.5
 Female 7,511 5.8   Asian and Pacific Island languages 2,112 1.5
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 892 0.6
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 150,581 100.0
           under 18 years 1,751 100.0     Total ancestries reported 138,337 91.9
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 971 55.5   Arab 651 0.4
        Czech¹ 368 0.2
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 421 0.3
          Civilian population 18 years and over 124,196 100.0   Dutch 1,586 1.1
Civilian veterans 11,418 9.2   English 13,888 9.2
        French (except Basque)¹ 3,390 2.3
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 730 0.5
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 14,091 9.4
     Population 5 to 20 years 40,002 100.0   Greek 772 0.5
With a disability 2,654 6.6   Hungarian 503 0.3
     Population 21 to 64 years 87,494 100.0   Irish¹ 13,401 8.9
With a disability 10,862 12.4   Italian 5,035 3.3
 Percent employed 61.6 (X)   Lithuanian 201 0.1
No disability 76,632 87.6   Norwegian 961 0.6
 Percent employed 76.2 (X)   Polish 2,264 1.5
     Population 65 years and over 11,290 100.0   Portuguese 221 0.1
With a disability 4,704 41.7   Russian 1,128 0.7
        Scotch-Irish 3,309 2.2
        Scottish 3,513 2.3
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 217 0.1
  Population 5 years and over 142,852 100.0   Subsaharan African 2,240 1.5
Same house in 1995 47,417 33.2   Swedish 1,110 0.7
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 90,957 63.7   Swiss 339 0.2
 Same county 35,426 24.8   Ukrainian 294 0.2
 Different county 55,531 38.9   United States or American 7,976 5.3
  Same state 36,184 25.3   Welsh 1,061 0.7
  Different state 19,347 13.5   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 2,340 1.6
Elsewhere in 1995 4,478 3.1   Other ancestries 56,327 37.4
 
Date: January 11, 2005
 
-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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