Lenoir township, Caldwell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (21% naturalized citizens)
| Lenoir township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Lenoir township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15822
- Northeast: 494
- Midwest: 436
- South: 1762
- West: 200
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Lenoir township, North Carolina:
- 194 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 113 people in nursing homes
- 98 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 23 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,861
- One, attached: 43
- Two: 201
- 3 or 4: 182
- 5 to 9: 74
- 10 to 19: 145
- 20 to 49: 78
- 50 or more: 8
- Mobile homes: 1,712
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,400
Housing units in Lenoir township with a mortgage: 2,362 (187 second mortgage, 381 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,760
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (31%)
- Construction (12%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (28%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Woodworkers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lenoir township:
- United States or American (37.5%)
- German (9.1%)
- English (8.4%)
- Irish (5.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.0%)
- Scottish (2.1%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (50%)
- Honduras (14%)
- El Salvador (12%)
- Germany (5%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (3%)
- Greece (3%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,949 (75%)
- Carpooled: 1,923 (21%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 126 (1%)
- Other means: 176 (2%)
- Worked at home: 120 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (4%)
People in group quarters in Lenoir township, North Carolina:
- 194 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 113 people in nursing homes
- 98 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 23 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
96.1% of residents of Lenoir township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (80% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 18,923- In family households: 16,514 (4,029 male householders, 1,610 female householders)
4,186 spouses, 5,121 children (4,664 natural, 81 adopted, 376 stepchildren), 574 grandchildren, 169 brothers or sisters, 188 parents, 300 other relatives, 337 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,409 (1,003 male householders (838 living alone)), 1,063 female householders (992 living alone)), 343 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 437 (233 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,558 2-persons, 1,565 3-persons, 983 4-persons, 373 5-persons, 134 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,830 1-person, 145 2-persons, 30 3-persons, 61 4-persons,
2,608 married couples with children.
1,208 single-parent households (292 men, 916 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 45
| Here: | 2.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
| Here: | 2.3% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 31
| Here: | 7.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |