Glade Creek township, Alleghany County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Glade Creek township: | 5.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Glade Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1210
- Northeast: 39
- Midwest: 49
- South: 564
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
14 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 786
- One, attached: 6
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 247
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,100
Housing units in Glade Creek township with a mortgage: 232 (6 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 151
- Construction (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Glade Creek township:
- United States or American (47.0%)
- English (8.4%)
- German (7.2%)
- Irish (3.4%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (77%)
- Cuba (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Germany (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 691 (74%)
- Carpooled: 179 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 13 (1%)
- Walked: 31 (3%)
- Worked at home: 19 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (12%)
14 people in other nonhousehold living situations
91.5% of residents of Glade Creek township speak English at home.
7.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,993- In family households: 1,758 (503 male householders, 83 female householders)
522 spouses, 578 children (528 natural, 28 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 21 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 235 (59 male householders (59 living alone)), 170 female householders (161 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 274 2-persons, 134 3-persons, 134 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 220 1-person, 9 2-persons,
335 married couples with children.
76 single-parent households (28 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 8.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |