Panther Branch township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Panther Branch township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
47% of Panther Branch township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9117
- Northeast: 1620
- Midwest: 1082
- South: 2138
- West: 372
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $158,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Panther Branch township, North Carolina:
- 26 people in nursing homes
- 25 people in other group homes
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,090
- One, attached: 37
- Two: 6
- 5 to 9: 11
- 10 to 19: 8
- Mobile homes: 1,472
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,800
Housing units in Panther Branch township with a mortgage: 3,005 (367 second mortgage, 561 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 406
- Construction (19%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Panther Branch township:
- United States or American (23.1%)
- English (12.9%)
- German (9.5%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (50%)
- Sierra Leone (6%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- Honduras (5%)
- Australia (3%)
- South Africa (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,567 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,075 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (0%)
- Other means: 52 (1%)
- Worked at home: 199 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Panther Branch township, North Carolina:
- 26 people in nursing homes
- 25 people in other group homes
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.5% of residents of Panther Branch township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (27% speak English very well, 45% speak English well, 27% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,716- In family households: 13,380 (3,346 male householders, 864 female householders)
3,524 spouses, 4,911 children (4,414 natural, 168 adopted, 329 stepchildren), 183 grandchildren, 83 brothers or sisters, 68 parents, 138 other relatives, 263 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,336 (599 male householders (447 living alone)), 440 female householders (328 living alone)), 297 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 64 (30 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,535 2-persons, 1,106 3-persons, 1,032 4-persons, 342 5-persons, 155 6-persons, 40 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 775 1-person, 238 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
3,455 married couples with children.
636 single-parent households (162 men, 474 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 251
| Here: | 12.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 82
| Here: | 10.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 106
| Here: | 18.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |