Fairfield township, Hyde County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Fairfield township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Fairfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 14% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 903
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 0
- South: 55
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
569 people in state prisons
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 200
- 3 or 4: 15
- Mobile homes: 57
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,400
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 60 (8 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 17
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (38%)
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (10%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (9%)
- Food (6%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Apparel (13%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (12%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (11%)
- U. S. Postal service (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (27%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (12%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Religious workers (9%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (20%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (15%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (11%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- Scottish (21.3%)
- English (16.0%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- German (2.5%)
- Irish (2.1%)
- Jamaican (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Jamaica (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 146 (82%)
- Carpooled: 17 (10%)
- Walked: 8 (4%)
- Worked at home: 7 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Wood (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
569 people in state prisons
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.9% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 422- In family households: 355 (100 male householders, 11 female householders)
108 spouses, 111 children (104 natural, 7 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 10 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 67 (16 male householders (16 living alone)), 51 female householders (51 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 558 (552 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 52 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 10 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 67 1-person,
74 married couples with children.
15 single-parent households (7 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 5.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 14.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |