Highlands township, Macon County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Highlands township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Highlands township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 24% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 22% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 993
- Northeast: 232
- Midwest: 247
- South: 1071
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $198,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
73 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,263
- One, attached: 135
- Two: 93
- 3 or 4: 74
- 5 to 9: 109
- 10 to 19: 38
- 20 to 49: 14
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,900
Housing units in Highlands township with a mortgage: 439 (8 second mortgage, 74 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 413
- Construction (23%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Highlands township:
- English (20.3%)
- United States or American (16.4%)
- German (11.3%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (11.2%)
- Scottish (5.2%)
- French (except Basque) (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (29%)
- Mexico (23%)
- Philippines (14%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Germany (7%)
- South Africa (5%)
- Italy (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 885 (71%)
- Carpooled: 213 (17%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 53 (4%)
- Other means: 29 (2%)
- Worked at home: 59 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
73 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
96.2% of residents of Highlands township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 45% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,580- In family households: 2,067 (579 male householders, 188 female householders)
723 spouses, 505 children (436 natural, 31 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 22 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 513 (190 male householders (149 living alone)), 252 female householders (235 living alone)), 71 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 72 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 458 2-persons, 153 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 384 1-person, 48 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
330 married couples with children.
82 single-parent households (28 men, 54 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 3.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 10.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 19.5% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |