South Knobs township, Yadkin County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| South Knobs township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of South Knobs township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1493
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 63
- South: 146
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $41,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 551
- Mobile homes: 271
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,000
Housing units in South Knobs township with a mortgage: 212 (0 second mortgage, 77 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 185
- Construction (12%)
- Textile mills and textile products (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (22%)
- Health care (20%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Knobs township:
- United States or American (39.4%)
- English (21.0%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- German (6.2%)
- Scottish (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- Slovene (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 797 (84%)
- Carpooled: 128 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Wood (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.3% of residents of South Knobs township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (14% speak English very well, 51% speak English well, 35% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,773- In family households: 1,594 (508 male householders, 54 female householders)
518 spouses, 452 children (425 natural, 19 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 6 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 179 (38 male householders (33 living alone)), 123 female householders (112 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 267 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 117 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 14 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 145 1-person, 16 2-persons,
282 married couples with children.
53 single-parent households (22 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 8.4% |
| 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% |