Castalia township, Nash County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Castalia township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Castalia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% 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: 1648
- Northeast: 40
- Midwest: 20
- South: 134
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 412
- 3 or 4: 7
- Mobile homes: 325
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,100
Housing units in Castalia township with a mortgage: 138 (25 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 133
- Construction (29%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Castalia township:
- United States or American (27.3%)
- German (6.0%)
- English (4.1%)
- Irish (1.4%)
- Scandinavian (1.4%)
- Italian (0.9%)
- French (except Basque) (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (50%)
- El Salvador (33%)
- Netherlands (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 625 (83%)
- Carpooled: 95 (13%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Wood (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.7% of residents of Castalia township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,878- In family households: 1,631 (371 male householders, 152 female householders)
389 spouses, 591 children (522 natural, 27 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 65 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 7 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 247 (124 male householders (100 living alone)), 81 female householders (70 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 212 2-persons, 142 3-persons, 107 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 170 1-person, 33 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
345 married couples with children.
96 single-parent households (18 men, 78 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 3.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 10.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 22.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |