St. Marys township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (16% naturalized citizens)
St. Marys township: | 6.6% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
54% of St. Marys township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 42% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 24270
- Northeast: 3435
- Midwest: 2189
- South: 4636
- West: 906
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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 St. Marys township, North Carolina:
- 190 people in nursing homes
- 139 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 93 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 7 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 11,055
- One, attached: 527
- Two: 318
- 3 or 4: 673
- 5 to 9: 798
- 10 to 19: 329
- 20 to 49: 148
- 50 or more: 57
- Mobile homes: 1,365
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,200
Housing units in St. Marys township with a mortgage: 7,079 (990 second mortgage, 1,085 home equity loan, 38 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,770
- Construction (18%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Marys township:
- United States or American (12.2%)
- English (8.4%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- German (5.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- Italian (1.7%)
- Scottish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (62%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- India (3%)
- Cuba (2%)
- Canada (2%)
- Germany (2%)
- Honduras (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 15,394 (79%)
- Carpooled: 2,907 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 222 (1%)
- Taxi: 105 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 23 (0%)
- Bicycle: 26 (0%)
- Walked: 141 (1%)
- Other means: 176 (1%)
- Worked at home: 542 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (52%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
People in group quarters in St. Marys township, North Carolina:
- 190 people in nursing homes
- 139 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 93 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 7 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
91.0% of residents of St. Marys township speak English at home.
6.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (25% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 26% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 48% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (78% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 37,860- In family households: 32,686 (7,219 male householders, 3,242 female householders)
7,443 spouses, 11,335 children (10,436 natural, 278 adopted, 621 stepchildren), 1,121 grandchildren, 436 brothers or sisters, 248 parents, 714 other relatives, 928 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,174 (1,955 male householders (1,488 living alone)), 2,122 female householders (1,834 living alone)), 1,097 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 445 (333 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,346 2-persons, 2,690 3-persons, 2,050 4-persons, 834 5-persons, 312 6-persons, 229 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,322 1-person, 576 2-persons, 99 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
5,872 married couples with children.
2,632 single-parent households (434 men, 2,198 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 335
Here: | 7.5% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 160
Here: | 6.8% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 387
Here: | 26.5% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |