Little River township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (10% naturalized citizens)
| Little River township: | 6.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Little River 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, 54% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8064
- Northeast: 697
- Midwest: 308
- South: 1044
- West: 148
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
54 people in nursing homes
2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,122
- One, attached: 73
- Two: 207
- 3 or 4: 80
- 5 to 9: 86
- 10 to 19: 14
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 813
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,400
Housing units in Little River township with a mortgage: 1,658 (201 second mortgage, 238 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 579
- Construction (18%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (10%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Little River township:
- United States or American (21.1%)
- English (8.7%)
- German (4.6%)
- Irish (3.8%)
- Scottish (1.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Italian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Philippines (2%)
- El Salvador (2%)
- Other Western Africa (2%)
- Colombia (2%)
- Germany (2%)
- India (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,083 (76%)
- Carpooled: 1,066 (20%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 47 (1%)
- Other means: 43 (1%)
- Worked at home: 84 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
54 people in nursing homes
2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
90.5% of residents of Little River township speak English at home.
8.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (22% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 35% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 36% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,006- In family households: 9,602 (2,151 male householders, 840 female householders)
2,300 spouses, 3,327 children (3,068 natural, 103 adopted, 156 stepchildren), 271 grandchildren, 131 brothers or sisters, 63 parents, 182 other relatives, 337 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,404 (488 male householders (361 living alone)), 597 female householders (536 living alone)), 319 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 56 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,146 2-persons, 744 3-persons, 654 4-persons, 284 5-persons, 91 6-persons, 72 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 897 1-person, 141 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 8 4-persons, 4 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
1,826 married couples with children.
741 single-parent households (153 men, 588 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 81
| Here: | 5.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 4.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 11.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |