Moravian Falls township, Wilkes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Moravian Falls township: | 4.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Moravian Falls township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2071
- Northeast: 175
- Midwest: 134
- South: 183
- West: 55
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 795
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 347
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,500
Housing units in Moravian Falls township with a mortgage: 278 (9 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 209
- Construction (16%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Apparel (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Moravian Falls township:
- United States or American (40.6%)
- English (16.1%)
- German (8.9%)
- Irish (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- Polish (2.3%)
- European (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (65%)
- Vietnam (18%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,065 (75%)
- Carpooled: 307 (22%)
- Walked: 29 (2%)
- Worked at home: 26 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
6 people in other group homes
92.7% of residents of Moravian Falls township speak English at home.
5.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English well, 53% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,738- In family households: 2,368 (654 male householders, 125 female householders)
677 spouses, 776 children (669 natural, 43 adopted, 64 stepchildren), 70 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 22 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 370 (147 male householders (115 living alone)), 161 female householders (141 living alone)), 62 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 385 2-persons, 171 3-persons, 127 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 256 1-person, 52 2-persons,
454 married couples with children.
136 single-parent households (38 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 6.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 14.2% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |