Morehead township, Guilford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Land area: 77.1 sq. mi.
Water area: 2.7 sq. mi.
Population: 165,130 (99% urban, 1% rural)
| Males: 78,310 |  (47.4%) |
| Females: 86,820 |  (52.6%) |
Occupied houses/apartments: 158,232 (93,040 owner occupied, 65,192 renter occupied)
| % of renters here: | 41% |
| State: | 31% |
Races in Morehead township:
- White Non-Hispanic: 65.7%
- Black: 24.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.4%
- Asian: 3.3%
- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander: 0.0%
- Hispanic or Latino: 4.3%
- Two or more races: 1.5%
- Some other race: 0.2%
Median age of males: 33.7
Median age of females: 34.9
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Average household size: 2.26
| Morehead township: | 2.3 people |
| North Carolina: | 2.5 people |
Average family size: 2.91
| Morehead township: | $45,726 |
| North Carolina: | $45,906 |
| Here: | $618 |
| State: | $619 |
Estimated median house or condo value in 2013: $159,200 (it was $112,600 in 2000)
| : | $159,200 |
| North Carolina: | $154,300 |
| Population density: 2141 people per square mile | (very high). |
| This township: | 10.3% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
| This township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.5% |
65% of Morehead township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% 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: 400
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 141
- South: 4
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Morehead township, North Carolina:
- 4,421 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 1,227 people in nursing homes
- 776 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 167 people in other group homes
- 156 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 65 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 41 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 39 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 232
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Morehead township with a mortgage: 75 (7 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 60
- Truck transportation (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Wood products (11%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (9%)
- Food (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Food (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Morehead township:
- German (27.6%)
- English (15.2%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Danish (5.2%)
- Norwegian (3.8%)
- Swedish (3.8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 189 (70%)
- Carpooled: 70 (26%)
- Walked: 8 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (65%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Morehead township, North Carolina:
- 4,421 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 1,227 people in nursing homes
- 776 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 167 people in other group homes
- 156 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 65 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 41 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 39 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 2 people in religious group quarters
98.7% of residents of Morehead township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 80% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 580- In family households: 485 (146 male householders, 17 female householders)
147 spouses, 145 children (137 natural, 1 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 95 (38 male householders (33 living alone)), 44 female householders (40 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 90 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 20 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 73 1-person, 7 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
23,014 married couples with children.
9,354 single-parent households (1,458 men, 7,896 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 4.2% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |