Roanoke township, Northampton County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Roanoke township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Roanoke township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1536
- Northeast: 168
- Midwest: 21
- South: 299
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.8% of all households
483 people in state prisons
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 443
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 256
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Roanoke township with a mortgage: 163 (13 second mortgage, 67 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 73
- Public administration (17%)
- Construction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (14%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (13%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Roanoke township:
- United States or American (12.5%)
- English (6.0%)
- African (4.1%)
- Irish (3.1%)
- European (3.0%)
- German (1.4%)
- Austrian (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (70%)
- Other Western Asia (30%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 389 (70%)
- Carpooled: 107 (19%)
- Walked: 26 (5%)
- Other means: 9 (2%)
- Worked at home: 21 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Wood (2%)
483 people in state prisons
96.1% of residents of Roanoke township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (35% speak English very well, 65% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,492- In family households: 1,296 (336 male householders, 98 female householders)
330 spouses, 416 children (325 natural, 5 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 4 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 196 (84 male householders (67 living alone)), 86 female householders (86 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 565 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 206 2-persons, 99 3-persons, 78 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 153 1-person, 5 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
194 married couples with children.
162 single-parent households (25 men, 137 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 10.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 7.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |