Silver Hill township, Davidson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Hill township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Silver Hill 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, 61% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4945
- Northeast: 155
- Midwest: 159
- South: 551
- West: 93
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
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: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,996
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 97
- 3 or 4: 37
- Mobile homes: 457
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,900
Housing units in Silver Hill township with a mortgage: 1,084 (144 second mortgage, 322 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 391
- Construction (11%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Hill township:
- United States or American (38.9%)
- German (27.4%)
- English (9.5%)
- Irish (5.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (59%)
- Austria (41%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,777 (87%)
- Carpooled: 342 (11%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (0%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 56 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (62%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.7% of residents of Silver Hill township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 41% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,956- In family households: 5,402 (1,525 male householders, 275 female householders)
1,635 spouses, 1,804 children (1,611 natural, 59 adopted, 134 stepchildren), 59 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 26 parents, 22 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 554 (273 male householders (232 living alone)), 224 female householders (209 living alone)), 57 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 736 2-persons, 499 3-persons, 404 4-persons, 133 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 441 1-person, 56 2-persons,
1,161 married couples with children.
196 single-parent households (53 men, 143 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 2.7% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 7.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 49
| Here: | 28.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |