Stony Fork township, Watauga County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Stony Fork township: | 1.3% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Stony Fork township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1563
- Northeast: 111
- Midwest: 141
- South: 119
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 726
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 16
- Mobile homes: 190
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,200
Housing units in Stony Fork township with a mortgage: 213 (17 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 175
- Construction (28%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Bus drivers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Stony Fork township:
- United States or American (30.2%)
- English (23.4%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- German (6.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.3%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (74%)
- France (26%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 915 (86%)
- Carpooled: 120 (11%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 27 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (61%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (10%)
15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.7% of residents of Stony Fork township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,972- In family households: 1,736 (534 male householders, 40 female householders)
529 spouses, 599 children (585 natural, 0 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 236 (80 male householders (65 living alone)), 94 female householders (82 living alone)), 62 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 252 2-persons, 171 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 18 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 147 1-person, 13 2-persons, 12 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
378 married couples with children.
75 single-parent households (25 men, 50 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 4.4% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
Here: | 15.1% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |