Blue Ridge township, Watauga County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Blue Ridge township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Blue Ridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2205
- Northeast: 378
- Midwest: 283
- South: 619
- West: 157
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $158,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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
312 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,459
- One, attached: 112
- Two: 84
- 3 or 4: 51
- 5 to 9: 14
- 10 to 19: 49
- 20 to 49: 30
- Mobile homes: 68
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,900
Housing units in Blue Ridge township with a mortgage: 588 (23 second mortgage, 124 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 344
- Accommodation and food services (17%)
- Construction (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (30%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Postsecondary teachers (7%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Ridge township:
- English (20.7%)
- United States or American (17.8%)
- German (12.8%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.9%)
- Scottish (5.4%)
- Norwegian (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (17%)
- Indonesia (16%)
- Germany (15%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Argentina (9%)
- Mexico (8%)
- Cuba (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,443 (73%)
- Carpooled: 255 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 89 (4%)
- Other means: 29 (1%)
- Worked at home: 162 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
312 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.1% of residents of Blue Ridge township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (38% speak English very well, 63% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,439- In family households: 2,853 (820 male householders, 193 female householders)
860 spouses, 885 children (809 natural, 56 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 32 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 9 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 586 (221 male householders (132 living alone)), 210 female householders (168 living alone)), 155 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 308 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 573 2-persons, 209 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 34 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 300 1-person, 97 2-persons, 34 3-persons,
550 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (26 men, 64 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 6.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 2.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 2.4% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |