Rock Creek township, Wilkes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Creek township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Rock Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5137
- Northeast: 160
- Midwest: 102
- South: 478
- West: 73
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
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
6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,664
- One, attached: 35
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 27
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 826
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,500
Housing units in Rock Creek township with a mortgage: 674 (57 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 572
- Construction (13%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (10%)
- Food (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food (8%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek township:
- United States or American (34.8%)
- English (24.9%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- German (5.1%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- Dutch (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Trinidad and Tobago (32%)
- United Kingdom (30%)
- Peru (21%)
- Other Northern America (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,249 (83%)
- Carpooled: 378 (14%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 67 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
6 people in other group homes
98.7% of residents of Rock Creek township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (55% speak English very well, 45% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,000- In family households: 5,389 (1,569 male householders, 301 female householders)
1,488 spouses, 1,658 children (1,474 natural, 94 adopted, 90 stepchildren), 82 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 60 other relatives, 158 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 611 (214 male householders (169 living alone)), 332 female householders (332 living alone)), 65 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 848 2-persons, 494 3-persons, 385 4-persons, 103 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 501 1-person, 29 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
1,037 married couples with children.
276 single-parent households (98 men, 178 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 0.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 12.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |