Oak Ridge township, Guilford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Oak Ridge township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Oak Ridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% 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: 4397
- Northeast: 864
- Midwest: 556
- South: 1203
- West: 265
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
64 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,583
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 6
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 25
- Mobile homes: 206
Median worth of mobile homes: $56,300
Housing units in Oak Ridge township with a mortgage: 1,609 (166 second mortgage, 309 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 373
- Construction (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oak Ridge township:
- English (19.6%)
- United States or American (18.4%)
- German (17.3%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Italian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (23%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Philippines (10%)
- Cuba (9%)
- Japan (8%)
- Jamaica (8%)
- India (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,399 (87%)
- Carpooled: 265 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 21 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Other means: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 191 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Utility gas (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
64 people in nursing homes
96.5% of residents of Oak Ridge township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,462- In family households: 6,961 (2,080 male householders, 208 female householders)
2,155 spouses, 2,357 children (2,123 natural, 55 adopted, 179 stepchildren), 41 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 56 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 501 (175 male householders (128 living alone)), 230 female householders (191 living alone)), 96 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 64 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 906 2-persons, 594 3-persons, 556 4-persons, 180 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 319 1-person, 80 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
1,812 married couples with children.
172 single-parent households (59 men, 113 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
| Here: | 5.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 40
| Here: | 11.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 12.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |