Pelham township, Caswell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Pelham township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
73% of Pelham 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, 28% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1217
- Northeast: 99
- Midwest: 70
- South: 1941
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 964
- One, attached: 5
- 3 or 4: 28
- Mobile homes: 549
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,800
Housing units in Pelham township with a mortgage: 414 (32 second mortgage, 94 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 234
- Textile mills and textile products (25%)
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Textile mills and textile products (19%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pelham township:
- United States or American (23.4%)
- English (14.5%)
- German (8.5%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- Scottish (1.5%)
- French Canadian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (69%)
- Hong Kong (17%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,130 (74%)
- Carpooled: 361 (23%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 27 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (3%)
96.9% of residents of Pelham township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,424- In family households: 3,018 (763 male householders, 243 female householders)
809 spouses, 970 children (909 natural, 6 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 98 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 44 parents, 28 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 406 (195 male householders (172 living alone)), 176 female householders (176 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 462 2-persons, 267 3-persons, 181 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 348 1-person, 10 2-persons, 13 3-persons,
523 married couples with children.
167 single-parent households (30 men, 137 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 3.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 4.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |