Hickory township, Catawba County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Hickory township: | 8.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Hickory township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 37591
- Northeast: 3289
- Midwest: 3089
- South: 8533
- West: 1582
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Hickory township, North Carolina:
- 632 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 612 people in nursing homes
- 165 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 23 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 15 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 16,018
- One, attached: 1,006
- Two: 1,142
- 3 or 4: 1,349
- 5 to 9: 1,928
- 10 to 19: 1,048
- 20 to 49: 619
- 50 or more: 437
- Mobile homes: 2,083
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,800
Housing units in Hickory township with a mortgage: 8,631 (917 second mortgage, 2,056 home equity loan, 38 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,201
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hickory township:
- United States or American (20.1%)
- German (16.3%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- Laos (12%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- Thailand (3%)
- Canada (3%)
- Colombia (2%)
- Romania (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 24,940 (82%)
- Carpooled: 4,073 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 51 (0%)
- Railroad: 20 (0%)
- Taxi: 73 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 28 (0%)
- Bicycle: 44 (0%)
- Walked: 426 (1%)
- Other means: 284 (1%)
- Worked at home: 507 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Hickory township, North Carolina:
- 632 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 612 people in nursing homes
- 165 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 23 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 15 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
87.7% of residents of Hickory township speak English at home.
6.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
3.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (34% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 58,101- In family households: 48,346 (12,067 male householders, 3,685 female householders)
12,154 spouses, 16,232 children (14,829 natural, 410 adopted, 993 stepchildren), 1,141 grandchildren, 784 brothers or sisters, 406 parents, 997 other relatives, 880 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 9,755 (3,636 male householders (2,756 living alone)), 4,528 female householders (4,091 living alone)), 1,591 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,454 (613 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,981 2-persons, 3,880 3-persons, 3,001 4-persons, 1,133 5-persons, 438 6-persons, 319 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,847 1-person, 1,119 2-persons, 103 3-persons, 75 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
9,360 married couples with children.
3,308 single-parent households (728 men, 2,580 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 319
| Here: | 5.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 151
| Here: | 4.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,049
| Here: | 41.5% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |