Durham township, Durham County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 12 (14% naturalized citizens)
| Durham township: | 12.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
42% of Durham township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 58232
- Northeast: 11121
- Midwest: 4734
- South: 13417
- West: 2542
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Durham township, North Carolina:
- 6,228 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 1,193 people in nursing homes
- 391 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 384 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 198 people in state prisons
- 176 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 72 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 32 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 25 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in halfway houses
- 14 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 14 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 14 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 20,638
- One, attached: 1,943
- Two: 4,271
- 3 or 4: 3,833
- 5 to 9: 4,644
- 10 to 19: 4,258
- 20 to 49: 1,710
- 50 or more: 2,380
- Mobile homes: 158
Median worth of mobile homes: $60,300
Housing units in Durham township with a mortgage: 10,187 (1,175 second mortgage, 1,573 home equity loan, 34 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,041
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Durham township:
- English (5.8%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- German (4.4%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- African (1.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
- Italian (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (53%)
- Honduras (6%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- Other Eastern Africa (3%)
- India (2%)
- Canada (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 30,167 (64%)
- Carpooled: 9,947 (21%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2,549 (5%)
- Subway or elevated: 16 (0%)
- Railroad: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 117 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 33 (0%)
- Bicycle: 344 (1%)
- Walked: 2,464 (5%)
- Other means: 287 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,095 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Utility gas (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Durham township, North Carolina:
- 6,228 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 1,193 people in nursing homes
- 391 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 384 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 198 people in state prisons
- 176 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 72 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 32 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 25 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in halfway houses
- 14 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 14 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 14 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in other group homes
83.9% of residents of Durham township speak English at home.
11.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (70% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (74% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 95,137- In family households: 71,543 (12,221 male householders, 10,138 female householders)
12,653 spouses, 25,195 children (23,406 natural, 639 adopted, 1,150 stepchildren), 2,429 grandchildren, 2,032 brothers or sisters, 897 parents, 2,754 other relatives, 3,224 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 23,594 (7,975 male householders (5,833 living alone)), 9,910 female householders (8,041 living alone)), 5,709 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8,786 (1,904 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,093 2-persons, 5,672 3-persons, 4,111 4-persons, 1,948 5-persons, 872 6-persons, 663 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 13,874 1-person, 3,189 2-persons, 495 3-persons, 148 4-persons, 106 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
9,700 married couples with children.
10,276 single-parent households (1,126 men, 9,150 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,007
| Here: | 9.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 290
| Here: | 6.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6,416
| Here: | 58.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |