Reems Creek township, Buncombe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Reems Creek township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
52% of Reems Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1306
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 130
- South: 249
- West: 123
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 637
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 22
- 10 to 19: 3
- 20 to 49: 11
- Mobile homes: 115
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Reems Creek township with a mortgage: 200 (15 second mortgage, 3 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 209
- Construction (16%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Reems Creek township:
- United States or American (25.7%)
- Irish (15.5%)
- English (13.9%)
- German (9.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Portugal (24%)
- Japan (21%)
- Canada (21%)
- India (14%)
- Germany (7%)
- Italy (7%)
- Vietnam (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 585 (77%)
- Carpooled: 137 (18%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 11 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Wood (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.4% of residents of Reems Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (31% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 42% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (17% speak English very well, 83% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,821- In family households: 1,551 (411 male householders, 109 female householders)
422 spouses, 521 children (455 natural, 20 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 21 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 270 (94 male householders (80 living alone)), 130 female householders (116 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 45 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 263 2-persons, 120 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 196 1-person, 15 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,423 married couples with children.
377 single-parent households (79 men, 298 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 6.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |