Gold Hill township, Rowan County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Gold Hill township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Gold Hill 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, 49% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7054
- Northeast: 489
- Midwest: 544
- South: 1362
- West: 236
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $83,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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
People in group quarters in Gold Hill township, North Carolina:
- 94 people in nursing homes
- 43 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,586
- One, attached: 27
- Two: 133
- 3 or 4: 64
- 5 to 9: 88
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 17
- Mobile homes: 1,088
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Gold Hill township with a mortgage: 1,402 (180 second mortgage, 289 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 592
- Construction (14%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gold Hill township:
- United States or American (31.5%)
- German (27.6%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- English (6.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- Laos (23%)
- Ireland (8%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Vietnam (6%)
- Hungary (4%)
- Cuba (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,196 (84%)
- Carpooled: 654 (13%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 38 (1%)
- Other means: 21 (0%)
- Worked at home: 59 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (59%)
- Utility gas (24%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Gold Hill township, North Carolina:
- 94 people in nursing homes
- 43 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.5% of residents of Gold Hill township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 42% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,808- In family households: 8,724 (2,209 male householders, 632 female householders)
2,293 spouses, 3,004 children (2,575 natural, 74 adopted, 355 stepchildren), 170 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 55 parents, 130 other relatives, 161 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,084 (449 male householders (368 living alone)), 473 female householders (424 living alone)), 162 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 147 (137 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,168 2-persons, 752 3-persons, 634 4-persons, 230 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 792 1-person, 104 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 8 6-persons,
1,929 married couples with children.
525 single-parent households (151 men, 374 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 5.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 42
| Here: | 6.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 83
| Here: | 26.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |