Hillsborough township, Orange County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Hillsborough township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
51% of Hillsborough township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7847
- Northeast: 1215
- Midwest: 697
- South: 1379
- West: 337
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $150,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
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
People in group quarters in Hillsborough township, North Carolina:
- 169 people in state prisons
- 114 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 114 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 10 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,346
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 140
- 3 or 4: 123
- 5 to 9: 246
- 10 to 19: 85
- 20 to 49: 6
- 50 or more: 16
- Mobile homes: 970
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,300
Housing units in Hillsborough township with a mortgage: 1,788 (161 second mortgage, 359 home equity loan, 29 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 610
- Construction (19%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hillsborough township:
- United States or American (14.5%)
- English (8.3%)
- German (8.0%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.0%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- Canada (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Iran (3%)
- Taiwan (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,645 (79%)
- Carpooled: 869 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 31 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 10 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 79 (1%)
- Other means: 44 (1%)
- Worked at home: 170 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Electricity (39%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in Hillsborough township, North Carolina:
- 169 people in state prisons
- 114 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 114 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 10 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
93.5% of residents of Hillsborough township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,585- In family households: 9,809 (2,043 male householders, 1,189 female householders)
2,207 spouses, 3,535 children (3,197 natural, 99 adopted, 239 stepchildren), 206 grandchildren, 145 brothers or sisters, 62 parents, 233 other relatives, 189 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,776 (557 male householders (459 living alone)), 888 female householders (720 living alone)), 331 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 428 (410 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,350 2-persons, 881 3-persons, 660 4-persons, 206 5-persons, 97 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,179 1-person, 241 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 4 6-persons,
1,680 married couples with children.
924 single-parent households (168 men, 756 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 102
| Here: | 7.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 54
| Here: | 11.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 64
| Here: | 16.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |