Bushy Fork township, Person County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Bushy Fork township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Bushy Fork township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1873
- Northeast: 81
- Midwest: 38
- South: 298
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 746
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 16
- Mobile homes: 225
Median worth of mobile homes: $63,900
Housing units in Bushy Fork township with a mortgage: 188 (58 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 178
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (12%)
- Health care (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bushy Fork township:
- United States or American (42.7%)
- English (12.7%)
- German (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.6%)
- Irish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,047 (83%)
- Carpooled: 153 (12%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 48 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (5%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.1% of residents of Bushy Fork township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,353- In family households: 2,123 (600 male householders, 127 female householders)
632 spouses, 680 children (645 natural, 8 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 18 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 230 (129 male householders (129 living alone)), 91 female householders (84 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 317 2-persons, 201 3-persons, 131 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 36 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 213 1-person, 7 2-persons,
402 married couples with children.
93 single-parent households (11 men, 82 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 81
| Here: | 28.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 18.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 28.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |