Monroe township, Union County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 12 (16% naturalized citizens)
Monroe township: | 12.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
52% of Monroe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% 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: 24843
- Northeast: 2397
- Midwest: 2179
- South: 5748
- West: 602
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $109,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
People in group quarters in Monroe township, North Carolina:
- 551 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 460 people in nursing homes
- 191 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 145 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 91 people in state prisons
- 19 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 14 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 14 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 3 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 11,191
- One, attached: 272
- Two: 611
- 3 or 4: 574
- 5 to 9: 861
- 10 to 19: 228
- 20 to 49: 70
- 50 or more: 117
- Mobile homes: 1,166
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,800
Housing units in Monroe township with a mortgage: 6,017 (633 second mortgage, 1,153 home equity loan, 29 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,967
- Construction (21%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Monroe township:
- United States or American (18.0%)
- English (9.7%)
- German (8.4%)
- Irish (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (81%)
- Guatemala (6%)
- Colombia (1%)
- Other Caribbean (1%)
- Honduras (1%)
- Cuba (1%)
- Germany (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,980 (78%)
- Carpooled: 3,319 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 45 (0%)
- Railroad: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 44 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 43 (0%)
- Bicycle: 31 (0%)
- Walked: 292 (2%)
- Other means: 131 (1%)
- Worked at home: 405 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Utility gas (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
People in group quarters in Monroe township, North Carolina:
- 551 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 460 people in nursing homes
- 191 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 145 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 91 people in state prisons
- 19 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 14 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 14 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 3 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 2 people in religious group quarters
84.8% of residents of Monroe township speak English at home.
13.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 32% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (34% speak English very well, 66% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (41% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 39,590- In family households: 34,883 (7,701 male householders, 2,772 female householders)
7,634 spouses, 12,501 children (11,462 natural, 334 adopted, 705 stepchildren), 730 grandchildren, 760 brothers or sisters, 402 parents, 1,093 other relatives, 1,290 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,707 (1,517 male householders (1,099 living alone)), 2,164 female householders (1,924 living alone)), 1,026 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,526 (691 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,920 2-persons, 2,595 3-persons, 2,104 4-persons, 1,069 5-persons, 377 6-persons, 408 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,023 1-person, 516 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 11 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
6,419 married couples with children.
2,657 single-parent households (570 men, 2,087 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 331
Here: | 7.2% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 294
Here: | 14.1% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 837
Here: | 47.3% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |