Bakersville township, Mitchell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (21% naturalized citizens)
| Bakersville township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Bakersville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1175
- Northeast: 65
- Midwest: 57
- South: 279
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Bakersville township, North Carolina:
- 10 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 568
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 16
- 20 to 49: 26
- Mobile homes: 161
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Bakersville township with a mortgage: 153 (8 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 142
- Construction (11%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (10%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bakersville township:
- United States or American (27.7%)
- English (15.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (14.2%)
- German (12.1%)
- Scottish (6.2%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (69%)
- Australia (14%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (7%)
- Ecuador (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 522 (71%)
- Carpooled: 187 (26%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 18 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (63%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Bakersville township, North Carolina:
- 10 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in other group homes
93.9% of residents of Bakersville township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,612- In family households: 1,386 (379 male householders, 92 female householders)
401 spouses, 455 children (416 natural, 10 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 8 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 226 (84 male householders (66 living alone)), 96 female householders (84 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 31 (15 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 252 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 150 1-person, 20 2-persons, 10 4-persons,
286 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (10 men, 47 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 6.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 12.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |