Gap Civil township, Alleghany County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Gap Civil township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Gap Civil 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, 46% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2705
- Northeast: 184
- Midwest: 66
- South: 1034
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Gap Civil township, North Carolina:
- 122 people in nursing homes
- 26 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in other group homes
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,595
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 59
- 3 or 4: 61
- 5 to 9: 118
- 10 to 19: 49
- 20 to 49: 20
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 245
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,200
Housing units in Gap Civil township with a mortgage: 481 (59 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 411
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gap Civil township:
- United States or American (41.0%)
- English (15.4%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- German (7.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.6%)
- Dutch (1.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (75%)
- Vietnam (11%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Other South Central Asia (5%)
- Germany (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,477 (74%)
- Carpooled: 374 (19%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (3%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 61 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (6%)
People in group quarters in Gap Civil township, North Carolina:
- 122 people in nursing homes
- 26 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in other group homes
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
93.5% of residents of Gap Civil township speak English at home.
5.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 22% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (22% speak English very well, 52% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,048- In family households: 3,357 (923 male householders, 283 female householders)
966 spouses, 992 children (926 natural, 22 adopted, 44 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 63 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 691 (203 male householders (178 living alone)), 427 female householders (395 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 169 (150 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 623 2-persons, 303 3-persons, 199 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 573 1-person, 53 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
560 married couples with children.
170 single-parent households (26 men, 144 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 2.3% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 16.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |