South Whitakers township, Nash County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (78% naturalized citizens)
| South Whitakers township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
40% of South Whitakers township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2200
- Northeast: 314
- Midwest: 99
- South: 399
- West: 89
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
467 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 613
- One, attached: 20
- 5 to 9: 49
- 10 to 19: 13
- Mobile homes: 394
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,700
Housing units in South Whitakers township with a mortgage: 348 (42 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 74
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Whitakers township:
- English (11.2%)
- United States or American (7.4%)
- German (4.4%)
- Irish (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
- Scottish (1.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (52%)
- Ghana (16%)
- Poland (14%)
- India (13%)
- France (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,011 (75%)
- Carpooled: 229 (17%)
- Bicycle: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 88 (6%)
- Worked at home: 17 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (58%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
467 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
90.2% of residents of South Whitakers township speak English at home.
6.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,825- In family households: 2,505 (519 male householders, 228 female householders)
538 spouses, 1,009 children (859 natural, 45 adopted, 105 stepchildren), 119 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 26 parents, 7 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 320 (110 male householders (74 living alone)), 149 female householders (143 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 467 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 308 2-persons, 200 3-persons, 100 4-persons, 68 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 39 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 217 1-person, 32 2-persons, 10 4-persons,
452 married couples with children.
224 single-parent households (51 men, 173 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 9.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 186
| Here: | 34.4% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |