Ivy township, Buncombe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Ivy township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Ivy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 20% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2910
- Northeast: 257
- Midwest: 127
- South: 360
- West: 62
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
5 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,078
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 17
- Mobile homes: 511
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,800
Housing units in Ivy township with a mortgage: 314 (41 second mortgage, 63 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 248
- Construction (24%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Computer and electronic products (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ivy township:
- United States or American (34.8%)
- English (16.6%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.9%)
- Scottish (5.2%)
- German (4.9%)
- Swedish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (81%)
- Germany (11%)
- Other South America (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,401 (77%)
- Carpooled: 266 (15%)
- Walked: 19 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 115 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (9%)
- Other fuel (1%)
5 people in nursing homes
97.3% of residents of Ivy township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 28% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,770- In family households: 3,397 (865 male householders, 221 female householders)
877 spouses, 1,227 children (1,104 natural, 11 adopted, 112 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 30 other relatives, 89 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 373 (173 male householders (148 living alone)), 150 female householders (147 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 452 2-persons, 284 3-persons, 221 4-persons, 79 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 295 1-person, 25 2-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
703 married couples with children.
164 single-parent households (61 men, 103 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 35
| Here: | 7.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 4.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 29.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |