Fork township, Wayne County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (19% naturalized citizens)
| Fork township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Fork township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7358
- Northeast: 588
- Midwest: 394
- South: 718
- West: 234
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Fork township, North Carolina:
- 972 people in state prisons
- 500 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 344 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 51 people in nursing homes
- 15 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 4 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 4 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 4 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,996
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 8
- Mobile homes: 1,210
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,900
Housing units in Fork township with a mortgage: 1,143 (181 second mortgage, 146 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 443
- Construction (15%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fork township:
- United States or American (39.2%)
- English (7.8%)
- German (4.7%)
- Irish (4.1%)
- African (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (31%)
- Other South Central Asia (18%)
- United Kingdom (14%)
- Honduras (14%)
- Panama (4%)
- Poland (3%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,350 (84%)
- Carpooled: 268 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 16 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 187 (5%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 134 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
People in group quarters in Fork township, North Carolina:
- 972 people in state prisons
- 500 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 344 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 51 people in nursing homes
- 15 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 4 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 4 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 4 people in other group homes
92.8% of residents of Fork township speak English at home.
4.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (41% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,921- In family households: 7,163 (1,906 male householders, 424 female householders)
1,911 spouses, 2,560 children (2,217 natural, 53 adopted, 290 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 70 other relatives, 159 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 758 (272 male householders (225 living alone)), 392 female householders (363 living alone)), 94 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,884 (1,496 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 954 2-persons, 630 3-persons, 506 4-persons, 198 5-persons, 42 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 588 1-person, 71 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
1,495 married couples with children.
427 single-parent households (113 men, 314 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 77
| Here: | 8.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 36
| Here: | 6.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 76
| Here: | 23.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |