Sharpesburg township, Iredell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Sharpesburg township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Sharpesburg township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1984
- Northeast: 64
- Midwest: 30
- South: 176
- West: 13
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 668
- Mobile homes: 319
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,500
Housing units in Sharpesburg township with a mortgage: 201 (44 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 173
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (16%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (13%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sharpesburg township:
- United States or American (45.7%)
- English (11.6%)
- German (9.2%)
- Irish (5.8%)
- Scottish (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (27%)
- Mexico (27%)
- El Salvador (27%)
- Germany (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 921 (83%)
- Carpooled: 100 (9%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 57 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.5% of residents of Sharpesburg township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (13% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 38% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,353- In family households: 2,137 (593 male householders, 107 female householders)
599 spouses, 620 children (570 natural, 0 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 97 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 33 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 216 (76 male householders (69 living alone)), 128 female householders (122 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 297 2-persons, 182 3-persons, 168 4-persons, 53 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 191 1-person, 13 2-persons,
481 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (27 men, 75 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 5.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 7.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 9.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |