Buckhorn township, Harnett County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Buckhorn township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
72% of Buckhorn 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, 89% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1552
- Northeast: 30
- Midwest: 42
- South: 199
- West: 55
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 538
- One, attached: 6
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 282
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,000
Housing units in Buckhorn township with a mortgage: 241 (22 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 108
- Construction (34%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (12%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buckhorn township:
- United States or American (44.5%)
- English (6.8%)
- German (5.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Irish (4.2%)
- African (2.4%)
- British (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 789 (85%)
- Carpooled: 81 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Worked at home: 35 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.4% of residents of Buckhorn township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 21% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,935- In family households: 1,729 (434 male householders, 106 female householders)
457 spouses, 639 children (587 natural, 7 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 26 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 206 (114 male householders (109 living alone)), 68 female householders (54 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 206 2-persons, 128 3-persons, 132 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 163 1-person, 19 2-persons,
365 married couples with children.
126 single-parent households (26 men, 100 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 52
| Here: | 18.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 5.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 30.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |