Sandy Creek township, Vance County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Sandy Creek township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
54% of Sandy Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4941
- Northeast: 339
- Midwest: 110
- South: 418
- West: 41
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,149
- 3 or 4: 10
- Mobile homes: 1,232
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,900
Housing units in Sandy Creek township with a mortgage: 499 (41 second mortgage, 91 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 174
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sandy Creek township:
- United States or American (25.4%)
- English (7.1%)
- Irish (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- African (1.8%)
- German (1.3%)
- European (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (86%)
- Panama (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,144 (82%)
- Carpooled: 396 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 7 (0%)
- Other means: 38 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (68%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
96.0% of residents of Sandy Creek township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,915- In family households: 5,248 (1,032 male householders, 625 female householders)
1,017 spouses, 1,890 children (1,799 natural, 25 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 147 grandchildren, 50 brothers or sisters, 62 parents, 211 other relatives, 214 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 667 (242 male householders (147 living alone)), 246 female householders (212 living alone)), 179 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 627 2-persons, 511 3-persons, 299 4-persons, 106 5-persons, 70 6-persons, 44 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 359 1-person, 93 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 15 4-persons,
959 married couples with children.
510 single-parent households (107 men, 403 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 40
| Here: | 4.3% |
| 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: 42
| Here: | 24.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |