Piney Grove township, Sampson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 20 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Piney Grove township: | 19.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Piney Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1631
- Northeast: 50
- Midwest: 27
- South: 216
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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
14 people in other group homes
2 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 542
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 8
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 470
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,200
Housing units in Piney Grove township with a mortgage: 156 (7 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 142
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (39%)
- Food (10%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Apparel (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (21%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Piney Grove township:
- United States or American (23.7%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- English (2.3%)
- Italian (1.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.1%)
- European (0.6%)
- Polish (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (65%)
- Honduras (31%)
- Cuba (2%)
- El Salvador (1%)
- Dominican Republic (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 795 (70%)
- Carpooled: 262 (23%)
- Other means: 22 (2%)
- Worked at home: 52 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
14 people in other group homes
2 people in homes for the mentally ill
69.9% of residents of Piney Grove township speak English at home.
29.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (24% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 28% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (38% speak English very well, 62% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,521- In family households: 2,244 (544 male householders, 127 female householders)
487 spouses, 774 children (753 natural, 3 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 62 grandchildren, 65 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 58 other relatives, 115 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 277 (102 male householders (83 living alone)), 129 female householders (121 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 212 2-persons, 196 3-persons, 139 4-persons, 74 5-persons, 48 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 204 1-person, 16 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
483 married couples with children.
155 single-parent households (59 men, 96 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 8.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |