Bandy's township, Catawba County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Bandy's township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
73% of Bandy's township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3512
- Northeast: 185
- Midwest: 59
- South: 413
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $19,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,236
- Two: 7
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 504
Median worth of mobile homes: $49,500
Housing units in Bandy's township with a mortgage: 506 (19 second mortgage, 84 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 252
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (21%)
- Construction (11%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Health care (11%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bandy's township:
- United States or American (44.0%)
- German (20.6%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.4%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (43%)
- El Salvador (23%)
- United Kingdom (20%)
- Canada (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,914 (83%)
- Carpooled: 342 (15%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 44 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (61%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Wood (7%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.7% of residents of Bandy's township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,283- In family households: 3,836 (1,061 male householders, 227 female householders)
1,065 spouses, 1,317 children (1,192 natural, 30 adopted, 95 stepchildren), 62 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 28 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 447 (171 male householders (138 living alone)), 221 female householders (205 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 547 2-persons, 343 3-persons, 265 4-persons, 84 5-persons, 49 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 343 1-person, 49 2-persons,
787 married couples with children.
184 single-parent households (73 men, 111 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 1.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 9.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 50
| Here: | 32.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |