Chocowinity township, Beaufort County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Chocowinity township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Chocowinity township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% 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: 6252
- Northeast: 589
- Midwest: 175
- South: 502
- West: 69
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
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
6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,014
- One, attached: 19
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 15
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 1,617
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,900
Housing units in Chocowinity township with a mortgage: 757 (54 second mortgage, 116 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 605
- Construction (23%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chocowinity township:
- United States or American (28.3%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (7.1%)
- German (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
- Italian (1.7%)
- European (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (52%)
- Chile (10%)
- India (8%)
- Germany (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Indonesia (5%)
- El Salvador (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,813 (80%)
- Carpooled: 483 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 53 (2%)
- Other means: 39 (1%)
- Worked at home: 127 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Electricity (43%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.6% of residents of Chocowinity township speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (48% speak English very well, 52% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,774- In family households: 6,927 (1,696 male householders, 636 female householders)
1,754 spouses, 2,128 children (1,925 natural, 72 adopted, 131 stepchildren), 267 grandchildren, 68 brothers or sisters, 48 parents, 168 other relatives, 162 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 847 (412 male householders (362 living alone)), 343 female householders (315 living alone)), 92 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,122 2-persons, 569 3-persons, 400 4-persons, 138 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 39 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 677 1-person, 67 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,183 married couples with children.
402 single-parent households (73 men, 329 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 63
| Here: | 6.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 42
| Here: | 11.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 31
| Here: | 12.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |