Red Oak township, Nash County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Red Oak township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Red Oak township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2314
- Northeast: 115
- Midwest: 96
- South: 263
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 876
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 6
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 198
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,800
Housing units in Red Oak township with a mortgage: 482 (41 second mortgage, 102 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 141
- Construction (16%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Red Oak township:
- United States or American (34.4%)
- English (18.2%)
- Irish (6.2%)
- German (6.1%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
- Italian (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (26%)
- Dominican Republic (16%)
- Brazil (16%)
- Germany (11%)
- Russia (11%)
- Korea (11%)
- Canada (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,297 (91%)
- Carpooled: 100 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 27 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Electricity (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
97.1% of residents of Red Oak township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,867- In family households: 2,652 (717 male householders, 145 female householders)
728 spouses, 934 children (879 natural, 23 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 53 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 28 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 215 (82 male householders (76 living alone)), 116 female householders (102 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 328 2-persons, 259 3-persons, 204 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 178 1-person, 20 2-persons,
566 married couples with children.
89 single-parent households (20 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 5.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 6.3% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 25.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |