Bear Creek township, Chatham County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (14% naturalized citizens)
| Bear Creek township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Bear Creek 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, 63% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2978
- Northeast: 122
- Midwest: 41
- South: 173
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $36,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,082
- 3 or 4: 7
- Mobile homes: 374
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,000
Housing units in Bear Creek township with a mortgage: 231 (44 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 278
- Construction (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Food (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bear Creek township:
- United States or American (43.1%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- German (6.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (48%)
- United Kingdom (27%)
- Other Northern Europe (14%)
- Pakistan (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,305 (78%)
- Carpooled: 274 (16%)
- Walked: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 84 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (50%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98.1% of residents of Bear Creek township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 28% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,396- In family households: 3,112 (824 male householders, 242 female householders)
903 spouses, 987 children (926 natural, 19 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 57 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 28 parents, 19 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 284 (121 male householders (116 living alone)), 155 female householders (155 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 484 2-persons, 259 3-persons, 230 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 29 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 271 1-person, 5 2-persons,
575 married couples with children.
132 single-parent households (37 men, 95 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 5.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |