Rockford township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Rockford township: | 4.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Rockford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% 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: 1337
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 17
- South: 293
- West: 28
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 471
- Mobile homes: 309
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,900
Housing units in Rockford township with a mortgage: 190 (43 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 110
- Construction (14%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Apparel (19%)
- Health care (13%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Food processing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (17%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockford township:
- United States or American (35.4%)
- English (15.4%)
- German (8.9%)
- Irish (5.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (64%)
- Germany (23%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 743 (80%)
- Carpooled: 139 (15%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (40%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
92.0% of residents of Rockford township speak English at home.
5.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,831- In family households: 1,612 (470 male householders, 96 female householders)
484 spouses, 464 children (397 natural, 6 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 39 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 219 (118 male householders (92 living alone)), 74 female householders (74 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 300 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 72 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 166 1-person, 26 2-persons,
315 married couples with children.
69 single-parent households (27 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 14.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 16.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 12.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |