Kernersville township, Forsyth County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Kernersville township: | 5.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
50% of Kernersville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15170
- Northeast: 2543
- Midwest: 1671
- South: 4689
- West: 482
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
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
213 people in nursing homes
59 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,020
- One, attached: 217
- Two: 152
- 3 or 4: 294
- 5 to 9: 1,077
- 10 to 19: 861
- 20 to 49: 188
- 50 or more: 319
- Mobile homes: 1,110
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,200
Housing units in Kernersville township with a mortgage: 4,572 (544 second mortgage, 884 home equity loan, 19 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,250
- Construction (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kernersville township:
- United States or American (19.6%)
- German (16.0%)
- English (11.9%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.9%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (48%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- El Salvador (5%)
- Canada (4%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- Nicaragua (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,958 (84%)
- Carpooled: 1,607 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 16 (0%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 124 (1%)
- Other means: 108 (1%)
- Worked at home: 346 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (69%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
213 people in nursing homes
59 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
91.8% of residents of Kernersville township speak English at home.
5.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (44% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 25% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 26,050- In family households: 22,551 (5,993 male householders, 1,595 female householders)
6,205 spouses, 7,507 children (6,947 natural, 130 adopted, 430 stepchildren), 357 grandchildren, 191 brothers or sisters, 112 parents, 289 other relatives, 302 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,499 (1,461 male householders (1,222 living alone)), 1,563 female householders (1,442 living alone)), 475 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 277 (219 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,366 2-persons, 1,880 3-persons, 1,617 4-persons, 595 5-persons, 85 6-persons, 45 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,664 1-person, 314 2-persons, 27 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 5 5-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
4,952 married couples with children.
1,323 single-parent households (283 men, 1,040 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 242
| Here: | 7.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 141
| Here: | 10.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 311
| Here: | 30.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |