Green River township, Henderson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Green River township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Green River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2672
- Northeast: 299
- Midwest: 253
- South: 691
- West: 71
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $63,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,579
- One, attached: 7
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 426
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,200
Housing units in Green River township with a mortgage: 492 (33 second mortgage, 70 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 346
- Construction (16%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Green River township:
- United States or American (21.8%)
- English (21.1%)
- German (10.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (8.2%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Scottish (5.3%)
- Dutch (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Germany (33%)
- Spain (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,564 (81%)
- Carpooled: 266 (14%)
- Walked: 19 (1%)
- Other means: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 54 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.9% of residents of Green River township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,004- In family households: 3,577 (1,068 male householders, 142 female householders)
1,073 spouses, 1,146 children (1,048 natural, 5 adopted, 93 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 64 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 427 (167 male householders (127 living alone)), 191 female householders (176 living alone)), 69 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 579 2-persons, 281 3-persons, 225 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 303 1-person, 49 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
716 married couples with children.
147 single-parent households (64 men, 83 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 2.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
| Here: | 14.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 8.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |