Elevation township, Johnston County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Elevation township: | 3.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Elevation township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3657
- Northeast: 299
- Midwest: 176
- South: 557
- West: 63
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,358
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 5
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 755
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,500
Housing units in Elevation township with a mortgage: 611 (48 second mortgage, 131 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 287
- Construction (27%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elevation township:
- United States or American (40.7%)
- English (9.7%)
- German (7.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.8%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- French Canadian (2.3%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (34%)
- Guatemala (21%)
- Costa Rica (17%)
- Greece (11%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Honduras (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,004 (74%)
- Carpooled: 634 (23%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 1 (0%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 69 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
94.8% of residents of Elevation township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 40% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,963- In family households: 4,248 (1,144 male householders, 242 female householders)
1,234 spouses, 1,446 children (1,253 natural, 40 adopted, 153 stepchildren), 48 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 26 other relatives, 78 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 715 (236 male householders (156 living alone)), 321 female householders (303 living alone)), 158 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 591 2-persons, 367 3-persons, 255 4-persons, 114 5-persons, 59 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 459 1-person, 72 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 8 5-persons,
980 married couples with children.
161 single-parent households (63 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
| Here: | 6.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 7.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
| Here: | 31.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |