Shoal Creek township, Cherokee County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Shoal Creek township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Shoal Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 775
- Northeast: 215
- Midwest: 157
- South: 909
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 941
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 339
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,900
Housing units in Shoal Creek township with a mortgage: 199 (0 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 192
- Construction (27%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Carpenters (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shoal Creek township:
- United States or American (41.9%)
- German (12.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (10.2%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- English (5.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (53%)
- Canada (47%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 475 (69%)
- Carpooled: 174 (25%)
- Other means: 16 (2%)
- Worked at home: 25 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Wood (13%)
97.6% of residents of Shoal Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,080- In family households: 1,917 (545 male householders, 87 female householders)
518 spouses, 586 children (527 natural, 5 adopted, 54 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 47 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 163 (42 male householders (36 living alone)), 114 female householders (114 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 268 2-persons, 171 3-persons, 138 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 150 1-person, 6 2-persons,
287 married couples with children.
98 single-parent households (30 men, 68 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 3.7% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |