Swift Creek township, Pitt County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Swift Creek township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Swift Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1008
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 11
- South: 112
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 396
- Mobile homes: 185
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,500
Housing units in Swift Creek township with a mortgage: 145 (15 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 119
- Construction (26%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Paper (3%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (15%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Swift Creek township:
- United States or American (25.2%)
- English (25.1%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- German (5.5%)
- French (except Basque) (5.1%)
- European (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (78%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 582 (84%)
- Carpooled: 81 (12%)
- Worked at home: 34 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (61%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
95.3% of residents of Swift Creek township speak English at home.
4.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,252- In family households: 1,058 (286 male householders, 73 female householders)
307 spouses, 301 children (249 natural, 19 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 194 (83 male householders (63 living alone)), 82 female householders (74 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 166 2-persons, 109 3-persons, 66 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 137 1-person, 20 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
245 married couples with children.
41 single-parent households (16 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 11.8% |
| 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% |