Patterson township, Caldwell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Patterson township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
70% of Patterson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2155
- Northeast: 45
- Midwest: 106
- South: 181
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 940
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 12
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 245
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,100
Housing units in Patterson township with a mortgage: 381 (37 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 221
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (31%)
- Construction (14%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (29%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (20%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Woodworkers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Patterson township:
- United States or American (47.0%)
- German (13.6%)
- English (13.5%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Eastern Asia (53%)
- Germany (31%)
- Vietnam (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,080 (83%)
- Carpooled: 190 (15%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Wood (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.3% of residents of Patterson township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,541- In family households: 2,212 (637 male householders, 115 female householders)
647 spouses, 642 children (549 natural, 68 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 57 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 36 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 329 (112 male householders (99 living alone)), 171 female householders (147 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 337 2-persons, 185 3-persons, 169 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 246 1-person, 37 2-persons,
402 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (33 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 7.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 5.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |