Elkin township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (2% naturalized citizens)
| Elkin township: | 7.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Elkin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4540
- Northeast: 164
- Midwest: 178
- South: 910
- West: 148
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
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
People in group quarters in Elkin township, North Carolina:
- 323 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,109
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 70
- 3 or 4: 76
- 5 to 9: 43
- 10 to 19: 86
- 20 to 49: 146
- 50 or more: 19
- Mobile homes: 269
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,200
Housing units in Elkin township with a mortgage: 831 (60 second mortgage, 161 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 663
- Construction (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elkin township:
- United States or American (29.8%)
- English (18.1%)
- German (7.9%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Scottish (2.0%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Venezuela (6%)
- South Africa (4%)
- Honduras (3%)
- France (2%)
- Canada (2%)
- United Kingdom (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,225 (80%)
- Carpooled: 499 (18%)
- Walked: 36 (1%)
- Worked at home: 33 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Elkin township, North Carolina:
- 323 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
89.6% of residents of Elkin township speak English at home.
9.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (24% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 27% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (53% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well, 24% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,085- In family households: 5,180 (1,494 male householders, 270 female householders)
1,462 spouses, 1,495 children (1,240 natural, 72 adopted, 183 stepchildren), 115 grandchildren, 82 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 105 other relatives, 125 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 905 (283 male householders (257 living alone)), 578 female householders (565 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 364 (335 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 890 2-persons, 408 3-persons, 286 4-persons, 118 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 822 1-person, 33 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
985 married couples with children.
235 single-parent households (69 men, 166 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 13.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |