Cooper Gap township, Polk County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Cooper Gap township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
76% of Cooper Gap township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1401
- Northeast: 119
- Midwest: 51
- South: 267
- West: 8
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 516
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 339
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $54,800
Housing units in Cooper Gap township with a mortgage: 85 (8 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 109
- Construction (16%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (21%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Electricians (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cooper Gap township:
- United States or American (45.1%)
- English (15.9%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- German (8.3%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
- French Canadian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- Germany (19%)
- Italy (16%)
- Peru (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 698 (80%)
- Carpooled: 138 (16%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 27 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Wood (16%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
96.8% of residents of Cooper Gap township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 36% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,890- In family households: 1,623 (481 male householders, 87 female householders)
503 spouses, 516 children (501 natural, 0 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 0 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 267 (65 male householders (43 living alone)), 147 female householders (115 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 285 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 100 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 158 1-person, 50 2-persons, 4 5-persons,
316 married couples with children.
108 single-parent households (39 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 12.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 11.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |