Brush Creek township, Yancey County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Brush Creek township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Brush Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 435
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 23
- South: 57
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 265
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $72,300
Housing units in Brush Creek township with a mortgage: 61 (0 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 44
- Construction (26%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (16%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (11%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Chemicals (22%)
- Health care (21%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Woodworkers (23%)
- Construction laborers (17%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (20%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Personal appearance workers (7%)
- Child care workers (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brush Creek township:
- United States or American (35.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (18.3%)
- English (15.5%)
- Dutch (5.6%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- French (except Basque) (4.9%)
- European (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 95 (54%)
- Carpooled: 80 (46%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (66%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (3%)
98.7% of residents of Brush Creek township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 534- In family households: 485 (147 male householders, 17 female householders)
152 spouses, 158 children (151 natural, 0 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (30 male householders (30 living alone)), 19 female householders (19 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 13 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person,
107 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (3 men, 10 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |