Gastonia township, Gaston County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Gastonia township: | 4.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Gastonia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 56367
- Northeast: 4094
- Midwest: 2978
- South: 13689
- West: 1005
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Gastonia township, North Carolina:
- 921 people in nursing homes
- 254 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 222 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in other group homes
- 18 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 17 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 24,838
- One, attached: 722
- Two: 611
- 3 or 4: 1,290
- 5 to 9: 2,397
- 10 to 19: 1,623
- 20 to 49: 323
- 50 or more: 695
- Mobile homes: 1,727
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,800
Housing units in Gastonia township with a mortgage: 12,091 (1,528 second mortgage, 2,100 home equity loan, 51 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,764
- Construction (12%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gastonia township:
- United States or American (22.5%)
- German (9.4%)
- English (7.0%)
- Irish (7.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.6%)
- Scottish (2.0%)
- Italian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (51%)
- Colombia (8%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- Germany (4%)
- Canada (3%)
- India (3%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 30,467 (82%)
- Carpooled: 5,257 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 173 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 39 (0%)
- Walked: 417 (1%)
- Other means: 245 (1%)
- Worked at home: 641 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Gastonia township, North Carolina:
- 921 people in nursing homes
- 254 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 222 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in other group homes
- 18 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 17 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in other nonhousehold living situations
92.7% of residents of Gastonia township speak English at home.
5.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (53% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 81,010- In family households: 70,060 (16,444 male householders, 6,341 female householders)
16,826 spouses, 23,612 children (21,253 natural, 665 adopted, 1,694 stepchildren), 2,500 grandchildren, 816 brothers or sisters, 678 parents, 1,195 other relatives, 1,648 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10,950 (3,940 male householders (3,026 living alone)), 5,139 female householders (4,726 living alone)), 1,871 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,479 (1,183 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,670 2-persons, 5,862 3-persons, 4,442 4-persons, 1,851 5-persons, 642 6-persons, 318 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,752 1-person, 1,025 2-persons, 217 3-persons, 49 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 14 6-persons,
11,912 married couples with children.
5,889 single-parent households (1,078 men, 4,811 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,036
| Here: | 10.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 231
| Here: | 5.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 507
| Here: | 18.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |