Cary township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Cary township: | 14.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
46% of Cary township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 28% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 21827
- Northeast: 13133
- Midwest: 8233
- South: 12182
- West: 2788
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $149,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
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 Cary township, North Carolina:
- 438 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 23 people in other group homes
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 17,254
- One, attached: 2,768
- Two: 369
- 3 or 4: 977
- 5 to 9: 2,469
- 10 to 19: 2,438
- 20 to 49: 897
- 50 or more: 386
- Mobile homes: 556
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,600
Housing units in Cary township with a mortgage: 14,765 (1,592 second mortgage, 2,999 home equity loan, 77 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,186
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (18%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer specialists (16%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (3%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cary township:
- German (13.4%)
- English (12.1%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (17%)
- Mexico (17%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Canada (4%)
- Germany (4%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Vietnam (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 32,689 (84%)
- Carpooled: 3,808 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 68 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 48 (0%)
- Bicycle: 46 (0%)
- Walked: 402 (1%)
- Other means: 261 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,623 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Electricity (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Cary township, North Carolina:
- 438 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 23 people in other group homes
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
83.3% of residents of Cary township speak English at home.
5.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
6.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
4.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 68,710- In family households: 57,609 (14,873 male householders, 3,399 female householders)
15,724 spouses, 20,638 children (19,482 natural, 428 adopted, 728 stepchildren), 262 grandchildren, 579 brothers or sisters, 475 parents, 708 other relatives, 951 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 11,101 (4,048 male householders (2,831 living alone)), 4,366 female householders (3,490 living alone)), 2,687 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 505 (440 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,184 2-persons, 4,266 3-persons, 4,361 4-persons, 1,728 5-persons, 522 6-persons, 211 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,321 1-person, 1,716 2-persons, 264 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
15,056 married couples with children.
2,464 single-parent households (539 men, 1,925 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 710
| Here: | 8.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 392
| Here: | 10.3% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 538
| Here: | 18.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |