Shoals township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Shoals township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Shoals township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1525
- Northeast: 76
- Midwest: 28
- South: 194
- West: 6
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 517
- Mobile homes: 313
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,100
Housing units in Shoals township with a mortgage: 200 (0 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 49
- Construction (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shoals township:
- United States or American (44.6%)
- German (17.5%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- English (8.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (63%)
- Poland (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 876 (87%)
- Carpooled: 98 (10%)
- Other means: 16 (2%)
- Worked at home: 14 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (38%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (37%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Wood (7%)
98.3% of residents of Shoals township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 58% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,845- In family households: 1,646 (484 male householders, 54 female householders)
486 spouses, 524 children (505 natural, 0 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 65 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 199 (84 male householders (76 living alone)), 105 female householders (100 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 179 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 166 4-persons, 41 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 176 1-person, 13 2-persons,
373 married couples with children.
55 single-parent households (23 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 6.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 9.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 10.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |