Edwards township, Wilkes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (14% naturalized citizens)
Edwards township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
71% of Edwards township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6201
- Northeast: 102
- Midwest: 154
- South: 356
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,208
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 2
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 858
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,200
Housing units in Edwards township with a mortgage: 602 (55 second mortgage, 45 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 700
- Construction (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Edwards township:
- United States or American (34.8%)
- English (16.8%)
- German (11.0%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Dutch (3.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (37%)
- Egypt (27%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- Jordan (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,880 (85%)
- Carpooled: 387 (11%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 48 (1%)
- Worked at home: 87 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.4% of residents of Edwards township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (38% speak English well, 62% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,951- In family households: 6,147 (1,836 male householders, 279 female householders)
1,803 spouses, 1,924 children (1,785 natural, 19 adopted, 120 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 73 brothers or sisters, 38 parents, 39 other relatives, 87 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 804 (323 male householders (276 living alone)), 388 female householders (375 living alone)), 93 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,024 2-persons, 533 3-persons, 374 4-persons, 139 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 651 1-person, 40 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 13 4-persons,
1,135 married couples with children.
274 single-parent households (98 men, 176 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
Here: | 2.1% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 0.6% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
Here: | 9.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |