Contentnea Neck township, Lenoir County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (30% naturalized citizens)
Contentnea Neck township: | 2.9% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
58% of Contentnea Neck 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, 62% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2640
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 96
- South: 191
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
18 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 868
- One, attached: 5
- 3 or 4: 7
- Mobile homes: 662
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,200
Housing units in Contentnea Neck township with a mortgage: 336 (50 second mortgage, 58 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 183
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Contentnea Neck township:
- United States or American (29.5%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
- German (1.4%)
- Northern European (1.1%)
- African (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (46%)
- Honduras (18%)
- Other Northern Africa (10%)
- Germany (9%)
- El Salvador (9%)
- Thailand (7%)
- Other Northern America (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,171 (79%)
- Carpooled: 209 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 16 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (2%)
- Worked at home: 42 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
18 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
95.3% of residents of Contentnea Neck township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,130- In family households: 2,726 (571 male householders, 343 female householders)
685 spouses, 811 children (759 natural, 6 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 155 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 82 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 404 (154 male householders (129 living alone)), 190 female householders (174 living alone)), 60 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 16 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 402 2-persons, 212 3-persons, 187 4-persons, 80 5-persons, 33 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 303 1-person, 30 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
443 married couples with children.
208 single-parent households (67 men, 141 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
Here: | 4.7% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
Here: | 14.9% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
Here: | 18.6% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |