Swift Creek township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Swift Creek township: | 9.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
48% of Swift Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16169
- Northeast: 5498
- Midwest: 3157
- South: 5683
- West: 1434
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $218,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
32 people in other nonhousehold living situations
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,432
- One, attached: 341
- Two: 76
- 3 or 4: 739
- 5 to 9: 1,168
- 10 to 19: 1,034
- 20 to 49: 266
- 50 or more: 175
- Mobile homes: 1,188
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,600
Housing units in Swift Creek township with a mortgage: 7,057 (690 second mortgage, 1,589 home equity loan, 42 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,205
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Computer specialists (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Carpenters (3%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Swift Creek township:
- English (12.8%)
- German (12.7%)
- United States or American (11.3%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- European (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (22%)
- India (9%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- Taiwan (5%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 15,893 (82%)
- Carpooled: 2,259 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 182 (1%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 34 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 147 (1%)
- Other means: 89 (0%)
- Worked at home: 845 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (57%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
32 people in other nonhousehold living situations
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
88.7% of residents of Swift Creek township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 35,620- In family households: 29,873 (7,727 male householders, 1,662 female householders)
7,915 spouses, 10,790 children (10,040 natural, 315 adopted, 435 stepchildren), 384 grandchildren, 306 brothers or sisters, 148 parents, 458 other relatives, 483 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,747 (2,296 male householders (1,558 living alone)), 1,880 female householders (1,383 living alone)), 1,571 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 42 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,658 2-persons, 2,019 3-persons, 2,454 4-persons, 845 5-persons, 290 6-persons, 123 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,941 1-person, 968 2-persons, 223 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 1 6-persons,
7,618 married couples with children.
1,459 single-parent households (271 men, 1,188 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 438
| Here: | 9.3% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 304
| Here: | 15.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 311
| Here: | 15.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |