Cherryville township, Gaston County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Cherryville township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Cherryville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12845
- Northeast: 423
- Midwest: 381
- South: 1573
- West: 218
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Cherryville township, North Carolina:
- 279 people in nursing homes
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,503
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 164
- 3 or 4: 74
- 5 to 9: 41
- 10 to 19: 38
- 20 to 49: 29
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 1,684
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,900
Housing units in Cherryville township with a mortgage: 2,075 (304 second mortgage, 427 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,204
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cherryville township:
- United States or American (31.7%)
- German (19.7%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- English (8.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- European (1.7%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (49%)
- Greece (22%)
- Korea (6%)
- Vietnam (6%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Other Western Europe (3%)
- France (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,145 (86%)
- Carpooled: 827 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 32 (0%)
- Other means: 13 (0%)
- Worked at home: 132 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Cherryville township, North Carolina:
- 279 people in nursing homes
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.1% of residents of Cherryville township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 30% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 36% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 15,464- In family households: 13,631 (3,830 male householders, 677 female householders)
3,663 spouses, 4,408 children (3,909 natural, 113 adopted, 386 stepchildren), 255 grandchildren, 122 brothers or sisters, 128 parents, 222 other relatives, 326 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,833 (693 male householders (554 living alone)), 877 female householders (810 living alone)), 263 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 292 (279 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,898 2-persons, 1,250 3-persons, 924 4-persons, 303 5-persons, 103 6-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,364 1-person, 156 2-persons, 37 3-persons, 13 4-persons,
2,565 married couples with children.
810 single-parent households (249 men, 561 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 103
| Here: | 6.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 68
| Here: | 9.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 63
| Here: | 14.4% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |