Catawba township, Catawba County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (20% naturalized citizens)
Catawba township: | 3.7% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Catawba township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% 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: 5721
- Northeast: 254
- Midwest: 388
- South: 1193
- West: 114
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,037
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 21
- 20 to 49: 14
- Mobile homes: 1,164
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,400
Housing units in Catawba township with a mortgage: 924 (121 second mortgage, 119 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 613
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (17%)
- Construction (9%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Catawba township:
- United States or American (35.5%)
- German (14.4%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- European (2.2%)
- Italian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- Costa Rica (25%)
- Laos (9%)
- Other Eastern Europe (3%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Honduras (2%)
- Japan (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,370 (82%)
- Carpooled: 656 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (0%)
- Other means: 19 (0%)
- Worked at home: 42 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (72%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
94.1% of residents of Catawba township speak English at home.
4.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 30% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (41% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,021- In family households: 7,236 (1,896 male householders, 436 female householders)
1,861 spouses, 2,508 children (2,242 natural, 62 adopted, 204 stepchildren), 127 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 80 parents, 125 other relatives, 155 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 785 (347 male householders (289 living alone)), 339 female householders (328 living alone)), 99 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 895 2-persons, 635 3-persons, 468 4-persons, 246 5-persons, 56 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 617 1-person, 40 2-persons, 15 3-persons, 14 5-persons,
1,329 married couples with children.
431 single-parent households (179 men, 252 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 47
Here: | 4.6% |
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: 53
Here: | 23.9% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |