Jacks Creek township, Yancey County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (90% naturalized citizens)
Jacks Creek township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Jacks Creek 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, 41% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1151
- Northeast: 85
- Midwest: 82
- South: 228
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 655
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 186
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,300
Housing units in Jacks Creek township with a mortgage: 143 (23 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 153
- Construction (26%)
- Textile mills and textile products (14%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jacks Creek township:
- United States or American (35.1%)
- English (10.6%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.5%)
- European (6.4%)
- German (5.2%)
- Scottish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (50%)
- Ecuador (25%)
- Mexico (15%)
- Other Caribbean (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 534 (81%)
- Carpooled: 108 (16%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (72%)
- Wood (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (3%)
98.3% of residents of Jacks Creek township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,585- In family households: 1,461 (441 male householders, 79 female householders)
432 spouses, 448 children (410 natural, 20 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 7 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 124 (46 male householders (38 living alone)), 69 female householders (67 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 261 2-persons, 151 3-persons, 63 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 105 1-person, 10 2-persons,
304 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (21 men, 43 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 27.3% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |