Friendship township, Guilford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Friendship township: | 7.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
43% of Friendship township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 31% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6645
- Northeast: 2087
- Midwest: 1140
- South: 2613
- West: 356
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $148,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,289
- One, attached: 472
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 41
- 5 to 9: 71
- 10 to 19: 322
- 20 to 49: 230
- 50 or more: 142
- Mobile homes: 29
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Friendship township with a mortgage: 3,660 (400 second mortgage, 755 home equity loan, 23 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 551
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Friendship township:
- German (14.2%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- English (11.3%)
- Irish (10.6%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.7%)
- Scottish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
- India (13%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Philippines (8%)
- El Salvador (6%)
- Korea (5%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,999 (88%)
- Carpooled: 576 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 15 (0%)
- Other means: 50 (1%)
- Worked at home: 280 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
89.5% of residents of Friendship township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
3.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,938- In family households: 12,206 (3,522 male householders, 504 female householders)
3,681 spouses, 4,236 children (3,961 natural, 82 adopted, 193 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 91 parents, 61 other relatives, 94 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,732 (659 male householders (474 living alone)), 765 female householders (656 living alone)), 308 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,682 2-persons, 1,033 3-persons, 904 4-persons, 336 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,130 1-person, 279 2-persons, 15 3-persons,
3,044 married couples with children.
409 single-parent households (83 men, 326 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 239
| Here: | 15.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 74
| Here: | 9.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 120
| Here: | 21.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |