Blue Ridge township, Henderson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (34% naturalized citizens)
Blue Ridge township: | 8.0% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Blue Ridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5141
- Northeast: 573
- Midwest: 540
- South: 1234
- West: 269
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $80,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,016
- One, attached: 33
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 1,786
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 83
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,600
Housing units in Blue Ridge township with a mortgage: 795 (75 second mortgage, 138 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 538
- Construction (20%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Ridge township:
- United States or American (23.0%)
- English (15.5%)
- German (9.9%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
- Scottish (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Thailand (4%)
- Korea (4%)
- Cambodia (4%)
- El Salvador (2%)
- Barbados (1%)
- United Kingdom (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,056 (78%)
- Carpooled: 710 (18%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (1%)
- Other means: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 85 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Wood (6%)
- No fuel used (1%)
87.9% of residents of Blue Ridge township speak English at home.
9.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 22% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 47% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,459- In family households: 7,381 (2,029 male householders, 453 female householders)
2,021 spouses, 2,473 children (2,315 natural, 68 adopted, 90 stepchildren), 128 grandchildren, 35 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 71 other relatives, 137 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,078 (370 male householders (300 living alone)), 541 female householders (492 living alone)), 167 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,151 2-persons, 582 3-persons, 495 4-persons, 172 5-persons, 52 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 792 1-person, 99 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 8 4-persons, 5 5-persons,
1,454 married couples with children.
412 single-parent households (108 men, 304 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 107
Here: | 10.8% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 79
Here: | 17.2% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 8.5% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |