Jonas Ridge township, Burke County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Jonas Ridge township: | 4.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
38% of Jonas Ridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 16% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 564
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 11
- South: 88
- West: 61
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $63,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
44 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
6 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 542
- Mobile homes: 73
Median worth of mobile homes: $54,700
Housing units in Jonas Ridge township with a mortgage: 60 (30 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 123
- Construction (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (7%)
- Health care (36%)
- Construction (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- U. S. Postal service (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (22%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Religious workers (7%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (17%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (14%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jonas Ridge township:
- United States or American (31.1%)
- English (14.9%)
- German (11.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (9.9%)
- European (8.8%)
- Polish (8.8%)
- Danish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Indonesia (31%)
- Hong Kong (29%)
- Other Central America (23%)
- Australia (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 238 (81%)
- Carpooled: 44 (15%)
- Walked: 12 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (62%)
- Wood (20%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
44 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
6 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
94.0% of residents of Jonas Ridge township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
3.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 664- In family households: 638 (130 male householders, 83 female householders)
159 spouses, 208 children (195 natural, 0 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 16 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 26 (7 male householders (7 living alone)), 19 female householders (19 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 109 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 109 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 41 4-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 26 1-person,
74 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (9 men, 11 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |