Mount Airy township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (15% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Airy township: | 4.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Mount Airy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 17242
- Northeast: 881
- Midwest: 654
- South: 4474
- West: 438
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Mount Airy township, North Carolina:
- 516 people in nursing homes
- 45 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 25 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 23 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,723
- One, attached: 174
- Two: 396
- 3 or 4: 540
- 5 to 9: 300
- 10 to 19: 127
- 20 to 49: 110
- 50 or more: 32
- Mobile homes: 1,834
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,400
Housing units in Mount Airy township with a mortgage: 3,135 (304 second mortgage, 634 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,462
- Construction (16%)
- Apparel (13%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Apparel (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Airy township:
- United States or American (35.5%)
- English (14.1%)
- German (6.4%)
- Irish (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- Scottish (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (72%)
- Laos (11%)
- Thailand (7%)
- India (3%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (2%)
- Russia (2%)
- Yugoslavia (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,863 (78%)
- Carpooled: 1,857 (16%)
- Taxi: 24 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 139 (1%)
- Other means: 196 (2%)
- Worked at home: 222 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Mount Airy township, North Carolina:
- 516 people in nursing homes
- 45 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 25 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 23 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
92.6% of residents of Mount Airy township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (31% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (83% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 24,267- In family households: 20,861 (5,290 male householders, 1,765 female householders)
5,588 spouses, 6,968 children (6,368 natural, 172 adopted, 428 stepchildren), 382 grandchildren, 204 brothers or sisters, 190 parents, 270 other relatives, 204 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,406 (1,323 male householders (1,176 living alone)), 1,821 female householders (1,737 living alone)), 262 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 642 (514 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,347 2-persons, 1,771 3-persons, 1,239 4-persons, 417 5-persons, 179 6-persons, 102 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,913 1-person, 201 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 7 5-persons,
3,774 married couples with children.
1,225 single-parent households (246 men, 979 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
| Here: | 2.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 52
| Here: | 4.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 149
| Here: | 15.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |