Poplar Branch township, Currituck County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Poplar Branch township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
54% of Poplar Branch township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 24% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2180
- Northeast: 877
- Midwest: 353
- South: 2560
- West: 211
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,619
- One, attached: 125
- 3 or 4: 40
- 5 to 9: 66
- 10 to 19: 50
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 783
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 17
Median worth of mobile homes: $54,500
Housing units in Poplar Branch township with a mortgage: 891 (104 second mortgage, 140 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 526
- Construction (32%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (9%)
- Construction (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Poplar Branch township:
- United States or American (25.6%)
- English (17.0%)
- German (11.5%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Italian (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (26%)
- United Kingdom (25%)
- India (12%)
- Japan (10%)
- Mexico (10%)
- Canada (9%)
- Other Northern Europe (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,260 (74%)
- Carpooled: 587 (19%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 27 (1%)
- Other means: 73 (2%)
- Worked at home: 102 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.2% of residents of Poplar Branch township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 45% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,316- In family households: 5,468 (1,513 male householders, 356 female householders)
1,614 spouses, 1,558 children (1,324 natural, 59 adopted, 175 stepchildren), 126 grandchildren, 31 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 127 other relatives, 129 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 848 (392 male householders (288 living alone)), 311 female householders (280 living alone)), 145 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 887 2-persons, 487 3-persons, 311 4-persons, 110 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 568 1-person, 126 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
919 married couples with children.
328 single-parent households (84 men, 244 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 79
| Here: | 11.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 4.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 19.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |