High Point township, Guilford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (21% naturalized citizens)
| High Point township: | 7.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of High Point township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 46429
- Northeast: 4581
- Midwest: 3339
- South: 11684
- West: 1193
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $79,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in High Point township, North Carolina:
- 867 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 608 people in nursing homes
- 348 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 337 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 26 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 21,199
- One, attached: 1,545
- Two: 1,567
- 3 or 4: 1,363
- 5 to 9: 2,314
- 10 to 19: 1,311
- 20 to 49: 292
- 50 or more: 1,071
- Mobile homes: 201
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in High Point township with a mortgage: 10,276 (1,268 second mortgage, 1,727 home equity loan, 54 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,665
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in High Point township:
- United States or American (12.8%)
- English (8.2%)
- German (7.2%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Italian (1.8%)
- Scottish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (42%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Pakistan (9%)
- Canada (3%)
- Laos (3%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (2%)
- Germany (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 26,357 (77%)
- Carpooled: 5,397 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 604 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 50 (0%)
- Railroad: 10 (0%)
- Taxi: 37 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 27 (0%)
- Walked: 569 (2%)
- Other means: 381 (1%)
- Worked at home: 713 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in High Point township, North Carolina:
- 867 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 608 people in nursing homes
- 348 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 337 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 26 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 2 people in other group homes
89.7% of residents of High Point township speak English at home.
6.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (53% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (32% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (66% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 71,063- In family households: 59,153 (12,476 male householders, 6,601 female householders)
12,741 spouses, 21,171 children (19,510 natural, 526 adopted, 1,135 stepchildren), 1,697 grandchildren, 1,047 brothers or sisters, 645 parents, 1,511 other relatives, 1,264 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 11,910 (3,999 male householders (3,073 living alone)), 5,705 female householders (5,006 living alone)), 2,206 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,196 (968 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 8,100 2-persons, 5,013 3-persons, 3,392 4-persons, 1,563 5-persons, 659 6-persons, 350 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8,079 1-person, 1,277 2-persons, 184 3-persons, 100 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
9,691 married couples with children.
6,617 single-parent households (840 men, 5,777 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 831
| Here: | 9.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 259
| Here: | 6.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,623
| Here: | 44.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |