Marsh township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 24 (12% naturalized citizens)
| Marsh township: | 24.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Marsh township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1657
- Northeast: 77
- Midwest: 22
- South: 261
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 442
- Mobile homes: 497
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,000
Housing units in Marsh township with a mortgage: 141 (9 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 130
- Construction (17%)
- Textile mills and textile products (15%)
- Apparel (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Apparel (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marsh township:
- United States or American (33.2%)
- English (6.1%)
- Irish (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Welsh (1.3%)
- Dutch (0.9%)
- French (except Basque) (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (95%)
- Honduras (3%)
- Guatemala (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 789 (75%)
- Carpooled: 191 (18%)
- Walked: 29 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (2%)
68.5% of residents of Marsh township speak English at home.
31.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,628- In family households: 2,463 (596 male householders, 133 female householders)
571 spouses, 917 children (808 natural, 17 adopted, 92 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 168 other relatives, 52 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 165 (68 male householders (59 living alone)), 77 female householders (66 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 260 2-persons, 162 3-persons, 157 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 63 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 20 2-persons,
537 married couples with children.
108 single-parent households (34 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 8.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |