Lovelady township, Caldwell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Lovelady township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Lovelady township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11629
- Northeast: 578
- Midwest: 726
- South: 1899
- West: 200
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
168 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,419
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 132
- 3 or 4: 257
- 5 to 9: 217
- 10 to 19: 54
- 20 to 49: 39
- 50 or more: 10
- Mobile homes: 1,254
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,900
Housing units in Lovelady township with a mortgage: 2,187 (175 second mortgage, 624 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,094
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (22%)
- Construction (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lovelady township:
- United States or American (39.5%)
- German (15.0%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.0%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- El Salvador (35%)
- Mexico (15%)
- Honduras (11%)
- Other Eastern Europe (10%)
- Colombia (6%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Japan (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,681 (82%)
- Carpooled: 1,295 (16%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (0%)
- Other means: 38 (0%)
- Worked at home: 136 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Utility gas (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (3%)
168 people in nursing homes
95.7% of residents of Lovelady township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 15,249- In family households: 13,403 (3,552 male householders, 935 female householders)
3,648 spouses, 4,385 children (3,868 natural, 113 adopted, 404 stepchildren), 241 grandchildren, 72 brothers or sisters, 113 parents, 111 other relatives, 346 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,846 (676 male householders (532 living alone)), 831 female householders (758 living alone)), 339 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 171 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,813 2-persons, 1,298 3-persons, 957 4-persons, 299 5-persons, 82 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,290 1-person, 171 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
2,704 married couples with children.
776 single-parent households (199 men, 577 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 145
| Here: | 7.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 56
| Here: | 7.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 81
| Here: | 18.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |