Jacobs Fork township, Catawba County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Jacobs Fork township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
58% of Jacobs Fork 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, 57% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3811
- Northeast: 268
- Midwest: 239
- South: 504
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
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
4 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,250
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 26
- Mobile homes: 600
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,700
Housing units in Jacobs Fork township with a mortgage: 742 (45 second mortgage, 180 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 152
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Construction (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (12%)
- Health care (9%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jacobs Fork township:
- United States or American (37.4%)
- German (25.1%)
- English (5.9%)
- Irish (4.1%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (72%)
- Korea (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,250 (85%)
- Carpooled: 274 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 88 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
4 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
97.4% of residents of Jacobs Fork township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 46% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,880- In family households: 4,401 (1,164 male householders, 259 female householders)
1,130 spouses, 1,613 children (1,489 natural, 15 adopted, 109 stepchildren), 74 grandchildren, 39 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 31 other relatives, 69 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 479 (214 male householders (185 living alone)), 165 female householders (140 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 550 2-persons, 361 3-persons, 342 4-persons, 130 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 325 1-person, 46 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
889 married couples with children.
245 single-parent households (75 men, 170 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
| Here: | 7.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 2.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 20.5% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |