Rocky Point township, Pender County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Rocky Point township: | 8.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
49% of Rocky Point township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 22% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3607
- Northeast: 534
- Midwest: 254
- South: 815
- West: 159
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
6 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,115
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 5
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 8
- Mobile homes: 1,242
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $66,700
Housing units in Rocky Point township with a mortgage: 619 (78 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 181
- Construction (28%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rocky Point township:
- United States or American (20.0%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- English (6.9%)
- German (5.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.6%)
- Italian (3.2%)
- European (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (69%)
- Colombia (7%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Netherlands (3%)
- Honduras (2%)
- United Kingdom (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,091 (76%)
- Carpooled: 570 (21%)
- Subway or elevated: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 51 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (81%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
6 people in nursing homes
90.6% of residents of Rocky Point township speak English at home.
7.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (26% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (15% speak English not well, 85% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,866- In family households: 5,205 (1,278 male householders, 327 female householders)
1,253 spouses, 1,678 children (1,449 natural, 16 adopted, 213 stepchildren), 241 grandchildren, 104 brothers or sisters, 38 parents, 115 other relatives, 171 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 661 (278 male householders (230 living alone)), 298 female householders (253 living alone)), 85 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 617 2-persons, 432 3-persons, 334 4-persons, 143 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 37 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 483 1-person, 76 2-persons, 17 3-persons,
981 married couples with children.
377 single-parent households (105 men, 272 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 78
| Here: | 8.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 1.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 18.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |