Caldwell township, Catawba County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (25% naturalized citizens)
Caldwell township: | 3.1% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Caldwell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5391
- Northeast: 249
- Midwest: 329
- South: 753
- West: 153
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
7 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,911
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 945
Median worth of mobile homes: $49,300
Housing units in Caldwell township with a mortgage: 870 (65 second mortgage, 144 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 471
- Construction (12%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (20%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Caldwell township:
- United States or American (41.6%)
- German (15.9%)
- English (9.9%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Costa Rica (40%)
- Laos (13%)
- Mexico (12%)
- Nicaragua (12%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Colombia (4%)
- Germany (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,392 (84%)
- Carpooled: 524 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (0%)
- Other means: 16 (0%)
- Worked at home: 57 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (77%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
7 people in other group homes
95.1% of residents of Caldwell township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (42% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,114- In family households: 6,384 (1,708 male householders, 377 female householders)
1,690 spouses, 2,171 children (1,906 natural, 24 adopted, 241 stepchildren), 104 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 51 parents, 80 other relatives, 149 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 730 (352 male householders (288 living alone)), 275 female householders (242 living alone)), 103 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 924 2-persons, 508 3-persons, 419 4-persons, 144 5-persons, 59 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 530 1-person, 90 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
1,358 married couples with children.
307 single-parent households (95 men, 212 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 0.8% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 0.4% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 58
Here: | 25.9% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |