Faison township, Duplin County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (8% naturalized citizens)
| Faison township: | 8.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Faison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2872
- Northeast: 165
- Midwest: 45
- South: 330
- West: 61
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $29,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Faison township, North Carolina:
- 19 people in other group homes
- 19 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,011
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 36
- 10 to 19: 18
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 578
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,800
Housing units in Faison township with a mortgage: 363 (56 second mortgage, 52 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 277
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (19%)
- Construction (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Food (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Faison township:
- United States or American (18.1%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (6.8%)
- German (3.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
- European (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (87%)
- Honduras (7%)
- Canada (3%)
- Guatemala (2%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,244 (76%)
- Carpooled: 257 (16%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 38 (2%)
- Other means: 54 (3%)
- Worked at home: 41 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Faison township, North Carolina:
- 19 people in other group homes
- 19 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
84.2% of residents of Faison township speak English at home.
15.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,795- In family households: 3,233 (795 male householders, 235 female householders)
790 spouses, 1,111 children (1,058 natural, 21 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 108 grandchildren, 50 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 58 other relatives, 59 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 562 (203 male householders (160 living alone)), 259 female householders (232 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 48 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 470 2-persons, 247 3-persons, 160 4-persons, 96 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 392 1-person, 53 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 3 6-persons,
592 married couples with children.
215 single-parent households (40 men, 175 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 0.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 3.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 17.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |