South Westfield township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (47% naturalized citizens)
| South Westfield township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of South Westfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 86% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1539
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 23
- South: 331
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 453
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 365
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,800
Housing units in South Westfield township with a mortgage: 168 (22 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 97
- Construction (18%)
- Apparel (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Apparel (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Health technologists and technicians (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Westfield township:
- United States or American (48.9%)
- English (9.6%)
- German (7.5%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
- Dutch (1.2%)
- Scottish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- Other South America (27%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 752 (77%)
- Carpooled: 169 (17%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 29 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (53%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- No fuel used (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.1% of residents of South Westfield township speak English at home.
3.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 36% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,980- In family households: 1,837 (503 male householders, 103 female householders)
515 spouses, 583 children (499 natural, 26 adopted, 58 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 31 other relatives, 52 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 143 (84 male householders (77 living alone)), 49 female householders (49 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 238 2-persons, 167 3-persons, 152 4-persons, 30 5-persons, 19 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 126 1-person, 7 2-persons,
395 married couples with children.
88 single-parent households (37 men, 51 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 6.4% |
| 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: 9
| Here: | 14.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |