Sandy Creek township, Franklin County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (5% naturalized citizens)
| Sandy Creek township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Sandy Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2092
- Northeast: 139
- Midwest: 14
- South: 164
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 538
- One, attached: 8
- Mobile homes: 589
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,600
Housing units in Sandy Creek township with a mortgage: 144 (6 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 183
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Religious workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sandy Creek township:
- United States or American (18.2%)
- English (7.0%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- African (3.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
- German (1.3%)
- Dutch (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (95%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 809 (74%)
- Carpooled: 267 (24%)
- Worked at home: 23 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
95.3% of residents of Sandy Creek township speak English at home.
4.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,489- In family households: 2,231 (502 male householders, 220 female householders)
544 spouses, 704 children (604 natural, 16 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 59 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 46 parents, 74 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 258 (76 male householders (60 living alone)), 148 female householders (144 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 333 2-persons, 202 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 18 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 204 1-person, 11 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
371 married couples with children.
182 single-parent households (33 men, 149 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
| Here: | 10.7% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 5.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 67.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |