Bolton township, Columbus County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Bolton township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
80% of Bolton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1452
- Northeast: 64
- Midwest: 19
- South: 171
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 464
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 276
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,000
Housing units in Bolton township with a mortgage: 132 (18 second mortgage, 3 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 181
- Construction (32%)
- Paper (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Wood products (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Social assistance (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Gasoline stations (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Construction laborers (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bolton township:
- United States or American (11.7%)
- African (4.4%)
- English (4.3%)
- Irish (4.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
- German (1.7%)
- Celtic (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Western Africa (67%)
- Japan (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 477 (76%)
- Carpooled: 118 (19%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 23 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (2%)
97.2% of residents of Bolton township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,750- In family households: 1,543 (345 male householders, 128 female householders)
357 spouses, 543 children (487 natural, 18 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 102 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 16 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 207 (97 male householders (86 living alone)), 83 female householders (73 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 156 2-persons, 146 3-persons, 99 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 159 1-person, 20 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
229 married couples with children.
118 single-parent households (31 men, 87 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 5.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 2.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 15.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |