Oak Grove township, Durham County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (17% naturalized citizens)
Oak Grove township: | 7.3% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
57% of Oak Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 19315
- Northeast: 2013
- Midwest: 929
- South: 2654
- West: 323
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Oak Grove township, North Carolina:
- 43 people in nursing homes
- 18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,868
- One, attached: 151
- Two: 141
- 3 or 4: 280
- 5 to 9: 417
- 10 to 19: 295
- 20 to 49: 51
- 50 or more: 47
- Mobile homes: 710
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,900
Housing units in Oak Grove township with a mortgage: 5,446 (728 second mortgage, 640 home equity loan, 40 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,383
- Construction (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oak Grove township:
- United States or American (14.6%)
- English (6.5%)
- German (4.3%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- African (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (48%)
- Honduras (11%)
- Nigeria (6%)
- El Salvador (5%)
- Other Western Africa (4%)
- India (3%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,232 (81%)
- Carpooled: 2,075 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 126 (1%)
- Taxi: 11 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 117 (1%)
- Other means: 41 (0%)
- Worked at home: 221 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (39%)
- Electricity (39%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Oak Grove township, North Carolina:
- 43 people in nursing homes
- 18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
89.7% of residents of Oak Grove township speak English at home.
7.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 26% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 27,495- In family households: 24,198 (5,235 male householders, 2,455 female householders)
5,372 spouses, 8,493 children (7,772 natural, 260 adopted, 461 stepchildren), 610 grandchildren, 328 brothers or sisters, 192 parents, 643 other relatives, 870 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,297 (1,144 male householders (870 living alone)), 1,606 female householders (1,459 living alone)), 547 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 65 (39 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,104 2-persons, 2,095 3-persons, 1,487 4-persons, 627 5-persons, 220 6-persons, 157 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,329 1-person, 346 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 24 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 11 6-persons,
4,339 married couples with children.
1,953 single-parent households (322 men, 1,631 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 348
Here: | 10.8% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 74
Here: | 5.4% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 166
Here: | 17.1% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |