Lovelady township, Burke County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Lovelady township: | 4.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Lovelady township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6511
- Northeast: 274
- Midwest: 305
- South: 999
- West: 218
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Lovelady township, North Carolina:
- 165 people in nursing homes
- 7 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 3 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,622
- One, attached: 49
- Two: 138
- 3 or 4: 118
- 5 to 9: 95
- 10 to 19: 51
- 20 to 49: 116
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 730
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,100
Housing units in Lovelady township with a mortgage: 1,164 (155 second mortgage, 224 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 873
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (12%)
- Construction (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Apparel (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lovelady township:
- United States or American (20.3%)
- German (18.0%)
- English (9.6%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
- European (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (38%)
- Mexico (26%)
- Thailand (10%)
- El Salvador (3%)
- Colombia (3%)
- Honduras (3%)
- Russia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,317 (82%)
- Carpooled: 568 (14%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 50 (1%)
- Other means: 66 (2%)
- Worked at home: 40 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Utility gas (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in Lovelady township, North Carolina:
- 165 people in nursing homes
- 7 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 3 people in homes for the mentally ill
92.0% of residents of Lovelady township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
3.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,565- In family households: 7,207 (1,838 male householders, 550 female householders)
1,864 spouses, 2,399 children (2,187 natural, 61 adopted, 151 stepchildren), 171 grandchildren, 64 brothers or sisters, 73 parents, 108 other relatives, 140 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,358 (470 male householders (396 living alone)), 721 female householders (684 living alone)), 167 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 174 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,155 2-persons, 535 3-persons, 415 4-persons, 168 5-persons, 63 6-persons, 52 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,080 1-person, 76 2-persons, 19 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 1 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
1,444 married couples with children.
523 single-parent households (115 men, 408 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 66
| Here: | 6.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 3.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 39
| Here: | 11.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |