Holly Grove township, Gates County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Holly Grove township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Holly Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 19% 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: 864
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 66
- South: 842
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $48,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 518
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 290
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Holly Grove township with a mortgage: 163 (15 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 135
- Construction (19%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Business operations specialists (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Holly Grove township:
- United States or American (38.4%)
- English (13.3%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- German (2.5%)
- Dutch (1.7%)
- Italian (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- France (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 516 (74%)
- Carpooled: 127 (18%)
- Walked: 40 (6%)
- Worked at home: 10 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Wood (2%)
97.9% of residents of Holly Grove township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,883- In family households: 1,670 (420 male householders, 143 female householders)
425 spouses, 568 children (560 natural, 3 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 19 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 213 (51 male householders (36 living alone)), 125 female householders (112 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 259 2-persons, 117 3-persons, 134 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 148 1-person, 25 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
337 married couples with children.
99 single-parent households (29 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 2.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 4.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 16.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |