Asheville township, Buncombe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Asheville township: | 6.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Asheville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6895
- Northeast: 815
- Midwest: 852
- South: 1995
- West: 328
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
47 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,958
- One, attached: 130
- Two: 132
- 3 or 4: 145
- 5 to 9: 136
- 50 or more: 26
- Mobile homes: 1,661
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,000
Housing units in Asheville township with a mortgage: 1,346 (172 second mortgage, 262 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 882
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Asheville township:
- United States or American (22.5%)
- English (12.8%)
- German (10.5%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.2%)
- Scottish (3.3%)
- Italian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Ukraine (14%)
- Guatemala (6%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Korea (3%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Russia (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,583 (78%)
- Carpooled: 927 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 26 (0%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 28 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (0%)
- Other means: 16 (0%)
- Worked at home: 249 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (2%)
47 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
89.4% of residents of Asheville township speak English at home.
6.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,658- In family households: 9,771 (2,572 male householders, 816 female householders)
2,651 spouses, 3,089 children (2,879 natural, 44 adopted, 166 stepchildren), 117 grandchildren, 76 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 178 other relatives, 242 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,887 (630 male householders (497 living alone)), 956 female householders (836 living alone)), 301 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 66 (49 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,637 2-persons, 900 3-persons, 543 4-persons, 231 5-persons, 76 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,333 1-person, 232 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 8 4-persons, 7 5-persons,
1,715 married couples with children.
650 single-parent households (185 men, 465 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 132
| Here: | 11.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 49
| Here: | 7.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 3.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |