Dallas township, Gaston County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Dallas township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Dallas township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15618
- Northeast: 648
- Midwest: 563
- South: 2215
- West: 220
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $89,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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
People in group quarters in Dallas township, North Carolina:
- 225 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 27 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 16 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 3 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,952
- One, attached: 30
- Two: 257
- 3 or 4: 124
- 5 to 9: 125
- 10 to 19: 45
- 20 to 49: 20
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 1,405
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Dallas township with a mortgage: 2,833 (419 second mortgage, 439 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,249
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dallas township:
- United States or American (33.2%)
- German (14.8%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- English (7.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (43%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Colombia (6%)
- Canada (6%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- Other Western Europe (5%)
- Nicaragua (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,880 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,125 (12%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 120 (1%)
- Other means: 71 (1%)
- Worked at home: 68 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Dallas township, North Carolina:
- 225 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 27 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 16 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 3 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.2% of residents of Dallas township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 28% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 19,384- In family households: 17,262 (4,562 male householders, 1,187 female householders)
4,459 spouses, 5,764 children (5,092 natural, 141 adopted, 531 stepchildren), 405 grandchildren, 131 brothers or sisters, 145 parents, 249 other relatives, 360 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,122 (849 male householders (683 living alone)), 945 female householders (878 living alone)), 328 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 277 (259 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,457 2-persons, 1,630 3-persons, 1,101 4-persons, 412 5-persons, 123 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,561 1-person, 181 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 21 4-persons, 6 6-persons,
3,086 married couples with children.
1,184 single-parent households (311 men, 873 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 300
| Here: | 12.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 58
| Here: | 6.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 87
| Here: | 16.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |