Lower Fork township, Burke County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Fork township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
72% of Lower Fork 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: 2417
- Northeast: 126
- Midwest: 134
- South: 270
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $43,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
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
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 750
- One, attached: 28
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 552
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,000
Housing units in Lower Fork township with a mortgage: 200 (42 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 246
- Construction (12%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (12%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Fork township:
- United States or American (37.0%)
- German (23.3%)
- English (6.2%)
- Irish (4.9%)
- African (3.1%)
- European (2.6%)
- Italian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (55%)
- Thailand (29%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,174 (75%)
- Carpooled: 310 (20%)
- Motorcycle: 17 (1%)
- Walked: 35 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 31 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (55%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Wood (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.7% of residents of Lower Fork township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (21% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 40% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,024- In family households: 2,730 (743 male householders, 135 female householders)
695 spouses, 964 children (866 natural, 30 adopted, 68 stepchildren), 64 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 39 other relatives, 59 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 294 (145 male householders (121 living alone)), 112 female householders (105 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 385 2-persons, 208 3-persons, 173 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 226 1-person, 31 2-persons,
619 married couples with children.
142 single-parent households (58 men, 84 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 9.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 6.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |