Polk City, FL

General Social Characteristics, 2000 data (id:1257950, place: Polk City town, Florida)

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school: 360 (100%)
Nursery school, preschool: 4 (1.11%)
Kindergarten: 31 (8.61%)
Elementary school (grades 1-8): 226 (62.78%)
High school (grades 9-12): 73 (20.28%)
College or graduate school: 26 (7.22%)

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over: 976 (100%)
Less than 9th grade: 64 (6.56%)
9th to 12th grade, no diploma: 231 (23.67%)
High school graduate (includes equivalency): 441 (45.18%)
Some college, no degree: 142 (14.55%)
Associate degree: 37 (3.79%)
Bachelor's degree: 50 (5.12%)
Graduate or professional degree: 11 (1.13%)
Percent high school graduate or higher: 69.8%
Percent bachelor's degree or higher: 6.3%

MARITIAL STATUS
Population 15 years and over: 1,155 (100%)
Never married: 187 (16.19%)
Now married, except separated: 665 (57.58%)
Separated: 27 (2.34%)
Total Widowed: 82 (7.1%)
Widowed Female: 69 (5.97%)
Total Divorced: 194 (16.8%)
Divorced Female: 107 (9.26%)

GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS
Grandparent living in household with one or more own grandchildren under 18 years: 47 (100%)
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren: 31 (65.96%)

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over: 1,097 (100%)
Civilian veterans: 130 (11.85%)

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 to 20 years: 374 (100%)
--With a disability: 57 (15.24%)
Population 21 to 64 years: 904 (100%)
--With a disability: 277 (30.64%)
----Percent employed: 49.8%
--No disability: 627 (69.36%)
----Percent employed: 76.7%
Population 65 years and over: 140 (100%)
--With a disability: 88 (62.86%)

RESIDENCE IN 1995
Population 5 years and over: 1,418 (100%)
Same house in 1995: 864 (60.93%)
Different house in the U.S. in 1995: 546 (38.5%)
--Same county: 340 (23.98%)
--Different county: 206 (14.53%)
----Same state: 120 (8.46%)
----Different state: 86 (6.06%)
Elsewhere in 1995: 8 (0.56%)

NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population: 1,491 (100%)
Native: 1,459 (97.85%)
--Born in United States: 1,413 (100%)
----State of residence: 711 (47.69%)
----Different state: 702 (47.08%)
--Born outside United States: 46 (3.09%)
Foreign born: 32 (2.15%)
----Entered 1990 to March 2000: 20 (1.34%)
--Naturalized citizen: 8 (0.54%)
--Not a citizen: 24 (1.61%)

REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Total (excluding born at sea): 32 (100%)
Europe: 16 (50%)
Asia: 8 (25%)
Africa: 0 (0%)
Oceania: 0 (0%)
Latin America: 8 (25%)
Northern America: 0 (0%)

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over: 1,418 (100%)
English only: 1,346 (94.92%)
Language other than English: 72 (5.08%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 32 (2.26%)
--Spanish: 65 (4.58%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 29 (2.05%)
--Other Indo-European languages: 4 (0.28%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)
--Asian and Pacific Island languages: 0 (0%)
----Speak English less than "very well": 0 (0%)

ANCESTRY (single or multiple)
Total population: 1,491 (100%)
Total ancestries reported: 1,267% (84.98%)
Arab: 13 (0.87%)
Czech: 9 (0.6%)
Danish: 0 (0%)
Dutch: 17 (1.14%)
English: 188 (12.61%)
French (except Basque): 92 (6.17%)
French Canadian: 8 (0.54%)
German: 108 (7.24%)
Greek: 23 (1.54%)
Hungarian: 5 (0.34%)
Irish: 201 (13.48%)
Italian: 35 (2.35%)
Lithuanian: 0 (0%)
Norwegian: 4 (0.27%)
Polish: 15 (1.01%)
Portuguese: 22 (1.48%)
Russian: 0 (0%)
Scotch-Irish: 69 (4.63%)
Scottish: 18 (1.21%)
Slovak: 0 (0%)
Subsaharan African: 0 (0%)
Swedish: 33 (2.21%)
Swiss: 0 (0%)
Ukrainian: 6 (0.4%)
United States or American: 131 (8.79%)
Welsh: 10 (0.67%)
West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups): 0 (0%)
Other ancestries: 260 (17.44%)

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