Grassy Creek township, Mitchell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Grassy Creek township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Grassy Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6598
- Northeast: 257
- Midwest: 308
- South: 718
- West: 142
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $78,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
130 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,817
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 101
- 3 or 4: 116
- 5 to 9: 100
- 10 to 19: 9
- 20 to 49: 23
- 50 or more: 14
- Mobile homes: 853
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,700
Housing units in Grassy Creek township with a mortgage: 1,021 (161 second mortgage, 155 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 810
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (16%)
- Construction (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Chemicals (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grassy Creek township:
- United States or American (37.9%)
- English (13.5%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- German (9.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.4%)
- Scottish (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (58%)
- Canada (13%)
- Korea (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Germany (4%)
- India (3%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,965 (78%)
- Carpooled: 690 (18%)
- Walked: 46 (1%)
- Other means: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 57 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (6%)
130 people in nursing homes
95.9% of residents of Grassy Creek township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 1% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,112- In family households: 7,013 (2,054 male householders, 389 female householders)
2,110 spouses, 2,097 children (1,897 natural, 38 adopted, 162 stepchildren), 122 grandchildren, 75 brothers or sisters, 64 parents, 72 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,099 (372 male householders (344 living alone)), 637 female householders (588 living alone)), 90 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 132 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,193 2-persons, 565 3-persons, 446 4-persons, 168 5-persons, 66 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 932 1-person, 67 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
1,319 married couples with children.
364 single-parent households (92 men, 272 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
| Here: | 6.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 36
| Here: | 8.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 19.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |