Quaker Gap township, Stokes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Quaker Gap township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Quaker Gap township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 31% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2299
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 38
- South: 267
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 753
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 18
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 417
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,500
Housing units in Quaker Gap township with a mortgage: 200 (6 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 145
- Construction (17%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Quaker Gap township:
- United States or American (27.4%)
- German (13.5%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- English (10.1%)
- British (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.1%)
- European (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,008 (75%)
- Carpooled: 268 (20%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (11%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
94.9% of residents of Quaker Gap township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,763- In family households: 2,467 (665 male householders, 153 female householders)
701 spouses, 807 children (748 natural, 20 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 24 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 296 (156 male householders (145 living alone)), 116 female householders (105 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 367 2-persons, 189 3-persons, 186 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 250 1-person, 22 2-persons,
551 married couples with children.
114 single-parent households (40 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 3.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |