Hendersonville township, Henderson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Hendersonville township: | 7.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Hendersonville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% 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: 18531
- Northeast: 6107
- Midwest: 5874
- South: 8429
- West: 1264
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $126,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Hendersonville township, North Carolina:
- 996 people in nursing homes
- 293 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 112 people in state prisons
- 99 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 75 people in other group homes
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 8 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 8 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 6 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 15,036
- One, attached: 1,016
- Two: 818
- 3 or 4: 1,004
- 5 to 9: 541
- 10 to 19: 189
- 20 to 49: 182
- 50 or more: 157
- Mobile homes: 2,490
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,200
Housing units in Hendersonville township with a mortgage: 6,336 (434 second mortgage, 1,084 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,405
- Construction (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hendersonville township:
- English (16.1%)
- United States or American (15.0%)
- German (13.6%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- Scottish (4.1%)
- Italian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Germany (6%)
- Canada (4%)
- South Africa (2%)
- Sweden (1%)
- Romania (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,515 (79%)
- Carpooled: 2,501 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 29 (0%)
- Taxi: 16 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 35 (0%)
- Walked: 274 (2%)
- Other means: 108 (1%)
- Worked at home: 659 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (40%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Hendersonville township, North Carolina:
- 996 people in nursing homes
- 293 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 112 people in state prisons
- 99 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 75 people in other group homes
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 8 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 8 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 6 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 4 people in religious group quarters
90.6% of residents of Hendersonville township speak English at home.
6.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 42,125- In family households: 35,311 (10,320 male householders, 2,557 female householders)
10,721 spouses, 9,551 children (8,797 natural, 208 adopted, 546 stepchildren), 559 grandchildren, 394 brothers or sisters, 257 parents, 381 other relatives, 571 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,814 (2,098 male householders (1,733 living alone)), 3,919 female householders (3,706 living alone)), 797 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,635 (1,213 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,666 2-persons, 2,409 3-persons, 1,734 4-persons, 694 5-persons, 248 6-persons, 126 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,439 1-person, 490 2-persons, 47 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 5 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
5,499 married couples with children.
1,819 single-parent households (387 men, 1,432 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 305
| Here: | 8.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 144
| Here: | 7.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 112
| Here: | 10.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |