Palmyra township, Halifax County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Palmyra township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Palmyra township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1157
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 5
- South: 68
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 375
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 4
- Mobile homes: 227
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,100
Housing units in Palmyra township with a mortgage: 108 (10 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 99
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Food (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (18%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Art and design workers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Palmyra township:
- English (5.9%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
- German (1.9%)
- African (1.5%)
- French (except Basque) (0.7%)
- British (0.5%)
- Irish (0.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 324 (78%)
- Carpooled: 62 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 17 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (22%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.4% of residents of Palmyra township speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (18% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,295- In family households: 1,106 (164 male householders, 190 female householders)
197 spouses, 399 children (385 natural, 4 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 82 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 18 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 189 (80 male householders (76 living alone)), 98 female householders (92 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 146 2-persons, 97 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 168 1-person, 10 2-persons,
128 married couples with children.
114 single-parent households (6 men, 108 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 6.4% |
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: 3
Here: | 20.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |