Center township, Stanly County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (19% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4806
- Northeast: 222
- Midwest: 173
- South: 486
- West: 96
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,900
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: 0.3% of all households
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,411
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 405
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,700
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 811 (91 second mortgage, 161 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 628
- Construction (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (30.2%)
- English (12.8%)
- German (10.5%)
- Irish (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
- Scottish (1.6%)
- Italian (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (64%)
- Other Central America (14%)
- Costa Rica (10%)
- Germany (2%)
- Panama (2%)
- Canada (2%)
- Austria (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,405 (82%)
- Carpooled: 416 (14%)
- Ferryboat: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 52 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 54 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Wood (5%)
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.2% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,965- In family households: 5,244 (1,397 male householders, 358 female householders)
1,422 spouses, 1,612 children (1,488 natural, 37 adopted, 87 stepchildren), 157 grandchildren, 51 brothers or sisters, 31 parents, 91 other relatives, 125 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 721 (310 male householders (254 living alone)), 314 female householders (298 living alone)), 97 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 859 2-persons, 401 3-persons, 314 4-persons, 108 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 46 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 552 1-person, 61 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
912 married couples with children.
295 single-parent households (90 men, 205 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 2.7% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 28
| Here: | 22.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |