Piney Creek township, Alleghany County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Piney Creek township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Piney Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 481
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 92
- South: 8
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
5 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 251
Housing units in Piney Creek township with a mortgage: 126 (14 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Construction (13%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Piney Creek township:
- German (48.7%)
- Norwegian (20.5%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- Scottish (5.2%)
- United States or American (4.0%)
- English (2.8%)
- Danish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 322 (85%)
- Carpooled: 39 (10%)
- Worked at home: 18 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (90%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Wood (2%)
- Electricity (2%)
5 people in other nonhousehold living situations
All residents speak only English at home
Household type by relationship:
Households: 595- In family households: 518 (170 male householders, 20 female householders)
159 spouses, 169 children (163 natural, 0 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 77 (40 male householders (30 living alone)), 24 female householders (16 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 92 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 52 4-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 46 1-person, 18 2-persons,
125 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (4 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
Here: | 41.7% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 8.8% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |