Sharpes township, Alexander County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Sharpes township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Sharpes township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3860
- Northeast: 228
- Midwest: 119
- South: 558
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,241
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 30
- 5 to 9: 20
- 10 to 19: 7
- Mobile homes: 829
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,600
Housing units in Sharpes township with a mortgage: 447 (14 second mortgage, 104 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 363
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (29%)
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (23%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sharpes township:
- United States or American (46.2%)
- English (11.0%)
- German (9.5%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.2%)
- Italian (1.4%)
- Dutch (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (92%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Chile (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,075 (76%)
- Carpooled: 391 (14%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 121 (4%)
- Other means: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 103 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
94.9% of residents of Sharpes township speak English at home.
4.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 37% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,981- In family households: 4,273 (1,187 male householders, 253 female householders)
1,175 spouses, 1,285 children (1,235 natural, 8 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 84 grandchildren, 54 brothers or sisters, 56 parents, 38 other relatives, 141 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 708 (248 male householders (211 living alone)), 325 female householders (277 living alone)), 135 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 684 2-persons, 337 3-persons, 273 4-persons, 96 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 488 1-person, 70 2-persons, 15 5-persons,
867 married couples with children.
282 single-parent households (65 men, 217 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 3.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 8.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 24.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |