Brown Marsh township, Bladen County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (4% naturalized citizens)
| Brown Marsh township: | 3.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Brown Marsh township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1513
- Northeast: 108
- Midwest: 68
- South: 175
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
People in group quarters in Brown Marsh township, North Carolina:
- 43 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 2 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 679
- One, attached: 42
- Two: 5
- 10 to 19: 10
- 20 to 49: 11
- Mobile homes: 184
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,800
Housing units in Brown Marsh township with a mortgage: 159 (14 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 290
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Food (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (25%)
- Health care (17%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (15%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (10%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (17%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secondary school teachers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brown Marsh township:
- United States or American (14.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.8%)
- Danish (4.9%)
- English (3.8%)
- Scottish (3.2%)
- German (2.5%)
- Italian (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (91%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 611 (83%)
- Carpooled: 73 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 14 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
People in group quarters in Brown Marsh township, North Carolina:
- 43 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 2 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
93.6% of residents of Brown Marsh township speak English at home.
5.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,885- In family households: 1,607 (302 male householders, 218 female householders)
319 spouses, 553 children (539 natural, 0 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 124 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 21 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 278 (72 male householders (72 living alone)), 191 female householders (179 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 48 (41 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 238 2-persons, 142 3-persons, 101 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 14 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 251 1-person, 12 2-persons,
232 married couples with children.
185 single-parent households (19 men, 166 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 2.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |