Murfreesboro township, Hertford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (32% naturalized citizens)
| Murfreesboro township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Murfreesboro township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4203
- Northeast: 302
- Midwest: 61
- South: 891
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
19 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
12 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,424
- One, attached: 45
- Two: 66
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 49
- 10 to 19: 9
- 20 to 49: 42
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 719
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,700
Housing units in Murfreesboro township with a mortgage: 615 (44 second mortgage, 103 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 398
- Construction (16%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Paper (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Food (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Construction laborers (3%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Murfreesboro township:
- United States or American (10.8%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (2.1%)
- German (1.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (0.9%)
- Greek (0.9%)
- Scottish (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- Taiwan (14%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Canada (5%)
- India (3%)
- Jamaica (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,549 (69%)
- Carpooled: 535 (24%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 40 (2%)
- Walked: 61 (3%)
- Other means: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Wood (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
19 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
12 people in nursing homes
96.9% of residents of Murfreesboro township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (24% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 46% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (12% speak English very well, 58% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,582- In family households: 4,774 (1,036 male householders, 476 female householders)
1,043 spouses, 1,714 children (1,589 natural, 35 adopted, 90 stepchildren), 190 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 151 other relatives, 90 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 808 (279 male householders (245 living alone)), 413 female householders (366 living alone)), 116 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 30 (11 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 637 2-persons, 386 3-persons, 311 4-persons, 105 5-persons, 63 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 611 1-person, 63 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
734 married couples with children.
521 single-parent households (63 men, 458 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 9.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 6.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 70
| Here: | 34.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |