Ridenhour township, Stanly County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (9% naturalized citizens)
Ridenhour township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Ridenhour township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2099
- Northeast: 49
- Midwest: 40
- South: 258
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 694
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 19
- Mobile homes: 274
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,800
Housing units in Ridenhour township with a mortgage: 192 (16 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 159
- Construction (19%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ridenhour township:
- United States or American (45.4%)
- German (18.4%)
- English (14.3%)
- Irish (4.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- British (1.5%)
- Portuguese (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (45%)
- Canada (45%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 935 (82%)
- Carpooled: 134 (12%)
- Walked: 25 (2%)
- Worked at home: 53 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (6%)
- No fuel used (2%)
99.1% of residents of Ridenhour township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,487- In family households: 2,287 (575 male householders, 137 female householders)
575 spouses, 902 children (807 natural, 18 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 51 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 19 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 200 (65 male householders (55 living alone)), 107 female householders (98 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 294 2-persons, 139 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 92 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 153 1-person, 9 2-persons, 10 4-persons,
521 married couples with children.
86 single-parent households (20 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 1.3% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
Here: | 0.7% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
Here: | 25.7% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |