St. Matthews township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (30% naturalized citizens)
| St. Matthews township: | 9.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
46% of St. Matthews township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 24763
- Northeast: 5564
- Midwest: 2362
- South: 6120
- West: 1055
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $121,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in St. Matthews township, North Carolina:
- 253 people in nursing homes
- 39 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 24 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 10 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 10 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 12,623
- One, attached: 1,274
- Two: 394
- 3 or 4: 439
- 5 to 9: 534
- 10 to 19: 218
- 20 to 49: 67
- 50 or more: 31
- Mobile homes: 2,528
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 50
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,600
Housing units in St. Matthews township with a mortgage: 9,639 (1,200 second mortgage, 1,291 home equity loan, 29 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,581
- Construction (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Matthews township:
- United States or American (12.0%)
- English (9.5%)
- German (7.5%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Italian (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- African (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (35%)
- Vietnam (12%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Germany (3%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (3%)
- Nigeria (3%)
- Other Western Africa (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 20,181 (82%)
- Carpooled: 3,108 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 83 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 110 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 26 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 151 (1%)
- Other means: 276 (1%)
- Worked at home: 764 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (47%)
- Electricity (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
People in group quarters in St. Matthews township, North Carolina:
- 253 people in nursing homes
- 39 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 24 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 10 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 10 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
86.3% of residents of St. Matthews township speak English at home.
7.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 34% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other language at home (83% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 44,353- In family households: 38,254 (8,917 male householders, 3,212 female householders)
9,556 spouses, 13,237 children (12,215 natural, 325 adopted, 697 stepchildren), 642 grandchildren, 633 brothers or sisters, 260 parents, 865 other relatives, 932 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,099 (2,449 male householders (1,753 living alone)), 2,363 female householders (2,000 living alone)), 1,287 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 350 (294 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,656 2-persons, 3,131 3-persons, 2,693 4-persons, 1,074 5-persons, 365 6-persons, 210 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,753 1-person, 945 2-persons, 79 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 1 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
8,481 married couples with children.
2,547 single-parent households (474 men, 2,073 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 560
| Here: | 9.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 234
| Here: | 11.3% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 363
| Here: | 22.4% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |