Grassy Creek township, Ashe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 21 (20% naturalized citizens)
| Grassy Creek township: | 21.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Grassy Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 199
- Northeast: 56
- Midwest: 5
- South: 152
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 199
- One, attached: 19
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 67
Median worth of mobile homes: $73,000
Housing units in Grassy Creek township with a mortgage: 26 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 18
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (29%)
- Construction (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Health care (42%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Sewing, needlework, and piece goods stores (13%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Gasoline stations (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (16%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Business operations specialists (10%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Physicians and surgeons (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (17%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (15%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (13%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (10%)
- Art and design workers (8%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grassy Creek township:
- English (30.4%)
- United States or American (19.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (8.5%)
- Irish (3.8%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- French Canadian (1.8%)
- Scottish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 108 (59%)
- Carpooled: 37 (20%)
- Walked: 10 (5%)
- Worked at home: 29 (16%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Wood (25%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
80.6% of residents of Grassy Creek township speak English at home.
19.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 506- In family households: 440 (134 male householders, 28 female householders)
164 spouses, 91 children (91 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 5 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 66 (32 male householders (30 living alone)), 6 female householders (6 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 95 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 21 4-persons, 17 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 36 1-person, 2 7-or-more-persons,
60 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (2 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |