Mayo township, Rockingham County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (20% naturalized citizens)
| Mayo township: | 5.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Mayo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% 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: 5569
- Northeast: 214
- Midwest: 136
- South: 923
- West: 105
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $58,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,149
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 23
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 841
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,600
Housing units in Mayo township with a mortgage: 891 (59 second mortgage, 173 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 588
- Textile mills and textile products (16%)
- Construction (14%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Textile mills and textile products (18%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mayo township:
- United States or American (35.4%)
- English (14.9%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- German (4.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (84%)
- Honduras (6%)
- Laos (5%)
- Polynesia (2%)
- Colombia (2%)
- United Kingdom (1%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,706 (79%)
- Carpooled: 504 (15%)
- Subway or elevated: 20 (1%)
- Walked: 71 (2%)
- Other means: 11 (0%)
- Worked at home: 93 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (57%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (3%)
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.0% of residents of Mayo township speak English at home.
7.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (32% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (13% speak English very well, 87% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,387- In family households: 6,568 (1,675 male householders, 451 female householders)
1,784 spouses, 2,050 children (1,793 natural, 91 adopted, 166 stepchildren), 197 grandchildren, 118 brothers or sisters, 80 parents, 143 other relatives, 70 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 819 (260 male householders (229 living alone)), 458 female householders (409 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 905 2-persons, 495 3-persons, 435 4-persons, 198 5-persons, 70 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 638 1-person, 68 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
1,237 married couples with children.
313 single-parent households (89 men, 224 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
| Here: | 4.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 1.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 58
| Here: | 32.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |