Raleigh township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (19% naturalized citizens)
| Raleigh township: | 10.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
42% of Raleigh township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 62124
- Northeast: 10308
- Midwest: 6129
- South: 17059
- West: 2410
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $129,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Raleigh township, North Carolina:
- 10,711 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 2,611 people in state prisons
- 848 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 549 people in nursing homes
- 491 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 454 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 127 people in other group homes
- 76 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 75 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 52 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 25 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 14 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 3 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 21,788
- One, attached: 2,677
- Two: 2,927
- 3 or 4: 4,893
- 5 to 9: 5,218
- 10 to 19: 4,184
- 20 to 49: 1,427
- 50 or more: 2,346
- Mobile homes: 165
Median worth of mobile homes: $91,800
Housing units in Raleigh township with a mortgage: 11,529 (1,309 second mortgage, 2,444 home equity loan, 102 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,300
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (3%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Raleigh township:
- English (12.5%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- German (6.6%)
- Irish (6.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.6%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (38%)
- India (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Nigeria (3%)
- Other Eastern Africa (3%)
- Korea (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 39,665 (72%)
- Carpooled: 6,877 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2,127 (4%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 17 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 12 (0%)
- Railroad: 11 (0%)
- Taxi: 283 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 69 (0%)
- Bicycle: 316 (1%)
- Walked: 3,209 (6%)
- Other means: 442 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,976 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Electricity (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Raleigh township, North Carolina:
- 10,711 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 2,611 people in state prisons
- 848 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 549 people in nursing homes
- 491 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 454 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 127 people in other group homes
- 76 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 75 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 52 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 25 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 14 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 3 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
85.9% of residents of Raleigh township speak English at home.
7.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 18% don't speak English at all).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 94,505- In family households: 63,394 (13,502 male householders, 7,497 female householders)
14,119 spouses, 19,916 children (18,737 natural, 575 adopted, 604 stepchildren), 1,714 grandchildren, 1,490 brothers or sisters, 595 parents, 2,006 other relatives, 2,555 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 31,111 (10,964 male householders (7,329 living alone)), 10,882 female householders (8,444 living alone)), 9,265 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 16,072 (4,193 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,862 2-persons, 5,005 3-persons, 3,473 4-persons, 1,596 5-persons, 609 6-persons, 454 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 15,773 1-person, 4,233 2-persons, 1,098 3-persons, 574 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 33 7-or-more-persons,
9,602 married couples with children.
6,532 single-parent households (865 men, 5,667 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 813
| Here: | 9.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 364
| Here: | 10.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4,162
| Here: | 20.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |