Gold Mine township, Franklin County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (3% naturalized citizens)
| Gold Mine township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Gold Mine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1402
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 37
- South: 120
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
69 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 464
- One, attached: 7
- Mobile homes: 285
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,500
Housing units in Gold Mine township with a mortgage: 122 (5 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 86
- Construction (26%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Painters and paperhangers (8%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gold Mine township:
- United States or American (35.7%)
- English (6.7%)
- Irish (4.5%)
- German (2.1%)
- French Canadian (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
- European (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (97%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 533 (71%)
- Carpooled: 170 (23%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (2%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 15 (2%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Wood (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Utility gas (4%)
69 people in nursing homes
95.0% of residents of Gold Mine township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (36% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 34% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,607- In family households: 1,431 (325 male householders, 123 female householders)
343 spouses, 504 children (476 natural, 0 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 85 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 10 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 176 (79 male householders (76 living alone)), 89 female householders (87 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 64 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 174 2-persons, 117 3-persons, 104 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 163 1-person, 3 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
226 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (13 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 7.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 5.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 5.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |