Pine Swamp township, Ashe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Pine Swamp township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Pine Swamp township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1411
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 68
- South: 246
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $83,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 858
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 205
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,700
Housing units in Pine Swamp township with a mortgage: 225 (18 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Construction (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (16%)
- Apparel (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Painters and paperhangers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pine Swamp township:
- United States or American (41.8%)
- English (18.5%)
- German (8.3%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Swedish (3.1%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (37%)
- Korea (32%)
- Mexico (32%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 697 (78%)
- Carpooled: 135 (15%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 50 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Wood (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.3% of residents of Pine Swamp township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,784- In family households: 1,617 (506 male householders, 62 female householders)
510 spouses, 435 children (384 natural, 13 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 27 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 167 (62 male householders (50 living alone)), 94 female householders (94 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 309 2-persons, 106 3-persons, 116 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 144 1-person, 12 2-persons,
338 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (21 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 5.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 15.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 14.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |