Riverbend township, Gaston County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Riverbend township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Riverbend township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% 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: 17113
- Northeast: 971
- Midwest: 942
- South: 2811
- West: 312
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,400
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
148 people in nursing homes
77 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,932
- One, attached: 110
- Two: 74
- 3 or 4: 321
- 5 to 9: 269
- 10 to 19: 113
- 20 to 49: 86
- 50 or more: 48
- Mobile homes: 1,375
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,800
Housing units in Riverbend township with a mortgage: 3,772 (461 second mortgage, 678 home equity loan, 36 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,667
- Construction (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Riverbend township:
- United States or American (31.2%)
- German (14.6%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (6.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.9%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
- European (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (48%)
- Laos (12%)
- Germany (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (5%)
- Mexico (4%)
- Colombia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,548 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,271 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 13 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 119 (1%)
- Other means: 38 (0%)
- Worked at home: 245 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
148 people in nursing homes
77 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.7% of residents of Riverbend township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (23% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 22,336- In family households: 19,756 (5,336 male householders, 1,264 female householders)
5,423 spouses, 6,156 children (5,449 natural, 180 adopted, 527 stepchildren), 621 grandchildren, 196 brothers or sisters, 141 parents, 298 other relatives, 321 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,580 (1,043 male householders (811 living alone)), 1,231 female householders (1,151 living alone)), 306 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 223 (147 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,933 2-persons, 1,724 3-persons, 1,288 4-persons, 443 5-persons, 148 6-persons, 64 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,962 1-person, 301 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
3,701 married couples with children.
1,162 single-parent households (322 men, 840 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 277
| Here: | 11.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 91
| Here: | 7.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 129
| Here: | 22.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |