Scotland Neck township, Halifax County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Scotland Neck township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Scotland Neck township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3756
- Northeast: 103
- Midwest: 30
- South: 263
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $21,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
126 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,232
- One, attached: 58
- Two: 83
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 401
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,800
Housing units in Scotland Neck township with a mortgage: 308 (18 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 300
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Food (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scotland Neck township:
- United States or American (10.3%)
- English (5.4%)
- African (4.3%)
- German (1.1%)
- Scottish (1.1%)
- Irish (1.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (34%)
- Germany (24%)
- Canada (21%)
- Nigeria (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 798 (65%)
- Carpooled: 323 (26%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 58 (5%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (43%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
126 people in nursing homes
97.2% of residents of Scotland Neck township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 1% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (45% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 48% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,086- In family households: 3,436 (551 male householders, 504 female householders)
509 spouses, 1,214 children (1,116 natural, 45 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 302 grandchildren, 74 brothers or sisters, 59 parents, 124 other relatives, 99 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 650 (239 male householders (216 living alone)), 354 female householders (331 living alone)), 57 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 127 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 448 2-persons, 237 3-persons, 180 4-persons, 103 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 547 1-person, 34 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
341 married couples with children.
526 single-parent households (63 men, 463 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 80
| Here: | 13.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 43
| Here: | 14.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 6.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |