Healing Spring township, Davidson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Land area: 35.2 sq. mi.
Water area: 2.7 sq. mi.
Population: 2,484 (all rural)
| Males: 1,227 |  (49.4%) |
| Females: 1,257 |  (50.6%) |
Occupied houses/apartments: 2,368 (1,985 owner occupied, 383 renter occupied)
| % of renters here: | 16% |
| State: | 31% |
Races in Healing Spring township:
- White Non-Hispanic: 97.7%
- Black: 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.6%
- Asian: 0.0%
- Two or more races: 0.6%
Median age of males: 39.0
Median age of females: 40.5
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Average household size: 2.54
| Healing Spring township: | 2.5 people |
| North Carolina: | 2.5 people |
Average family size: 2.88
| Healing Spring township: | $38,803 |
| North Carolina: | $45,906 |
| Here: | $468 |
| State: | $619 |
Estimated median house or condo value in 2013: $133,300 (it was $91,700 in 2000)
| : | $133,300 |
| North Carolina: | $154,300 |
Mean price in 2013:
Detached houses: $182,550
Here: $182,550 State: $219,576
Townhouses or other attached units: $175,030
Here: $175,030 State: $173,086
In 2-unit structures: $97,904
Here: $97,904 State: $165,738
In 3-to-4-unit structures: $93,923
Here: $93,923 State: $149,371
In 5-or-more-unit structures: $80,483
Here: $80,483 State: $175,668
Mobile homes: $56,999
Here: $56,999 State: $64,697
| Population density: 71 people per square mile | (average). |
| This township: | 8.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
| This township: | 4.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.5% |
Notable locations in this township outside city limits:
Churches in Healing Spring township include: Lick Creek Baptist Church (A), High Rock Baptist Church (B), Faith Church (C), Mountain View Baptist Church (D), Summerville Baptist Church (E), Floyd Baptist Church (F). Display/hide their locations on the map
Cemetery: Owens Cemetery (1). Display/hide its location on the map
Streams, rivers, and creeks: Fourmile Branch (A), Dry Branch (B), Flat Swamp Creek (C), Lick Creek (D). Display/hide their locations on the map
56% of Healing Spring township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1891
- Northeast: 33
- Midwest: 79
- South: 352
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
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
116 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 747
- One, attached: 26
- Mobile homes: 414
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,300
Housing units in Healing Spring township with a mortgage: 237 (54 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 157
- Construction (18%)
- Utilities (15%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Petroleum and coal products (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (21%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (13%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Healing Spring township:
- United States or American (50.8%)
- German (15.2%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Norwegian (2.2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 847 (74%)
- Carpooled: 259 (23%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 23 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (6%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
116 people in nursing homes
96.5% of residents of Healing Spring township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,263- In family households: 1,899 (512 male householders, 140 female householders)
512 spouses, 628 children (552 natural, 0 adopted, 76 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 43 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 364 (130 male householders (89 living alone)), 133 female householders (120 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 115 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 316 2-persons, 148 3-persons, 134 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 209 1-person, 31 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
428 married couples with children.
82 single-parent households (22 men, 60 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 2.8% |
| 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% |