Raft Swamp township, Robeson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Raft Swamp township: | 7.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Raft Swamp township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3005
- Northeast: 121
- Midwest: 51
- South: 154
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 9.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
People in group quarters in Raft Swamp township, North Carolina:
- 225 people in state prisons
- 63 people in federal prisons and detention centers
- 5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 389
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 71
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 18
- Mobile homes: 773
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,400
Housing units in Raft Swamp township with a mortgage: 131 (0 second mortgage, 18 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 129
- Construction (33%)
- Food (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Food (14%)
- Health care (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Leather and allied products (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (16%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Food processing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Raft Swamp township:
- United States or American (7.6%)
- German (1.8%)
- French Canadian (1.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
- Scottish (1.0%)
- English (0.8%)
- Italian (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (96%)
- Honduras (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 948 (77%)
- Carpooled: 261 (21%)
- Worked at home: 20 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in Raft Swamp township, North Carolina:
- 225 people in state prisons
- 63 people in federal prisons and detention centers
- 5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
89.8% of residents of Raft Swamp township speak English at home.
9.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (14% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 58% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (53% speak English very well, 47% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,311- In family households: 2,902 (465 male householders, 383 female householders)
413 spouses, 1,172 children (1,083 natural, 30 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 130 grandchildren, 136 brothers or sisters, 31 parents, 41 other relatives, 131 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 409 (184 male householders (149 living alone)), 156 female householders (140 living alone)), 69 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 295 (286 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 223 2-persons, 253 3-persons, 220 4-persons, 98 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 289 1-person, 41 2-persons, 10 4-persons,
443 married couples with children.
398 single-parent households (86 men, 312 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): 8
| Here: | 2.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 5.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |