Lake Creek township, Bladen County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Lake Creek township: | 7.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Lake Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 10% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 612
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 0
- South: 20
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
54 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 244
- Mobile homes: 89
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Lake Creek township with a mortgage: 45 (0 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 50
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (30%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (11%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Printing and related support activities (8%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Food (9%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (9%)
- Personal and laundry services (9%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (20%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (17%)
- Personal appearance workers (9%)
- Food processing workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lake Creek township:
- United States or American (16.8%)
- British (10.2%)
- English (7.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.2%)
- Scottish (4.0%)
- German (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (88%)
- Panama (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 193 (66%)
- Carpooled: 67 (23%)
- Walked: 7 (2%)
- Other means: 17 (6%)
- Worked at home: 9 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (2%)
54 people in other group homes
90.0% of residents of Lake Creek township speak English at home.
10.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 28% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 672- In family households: 577 (149 male householders, 47 female householders)
133 spouses, 203 children (188 natural, 0 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 95 (43 male householders (21 living alone)), 30 female householders (30 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 43 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 95 2-persons, 52 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 21 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 51 1-person, 22 2-persons,
94 married couples with children.
37 single-parent households (11 men, 26 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 11.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 31.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |