Thomasville township, Davidson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (12% naturalized citizens)
| Thomasville township: | 4.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Thomasville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 26735
- Northeast: 1180
- Midwest: 821
- South: 5156
- West: 383
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $88,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
406 people in nursing homes
78 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 11,322
- One, attached: 200
- Two: 549
- 3 or 4: 596
- 5 to 9: 779
- 10 to 19: 249
- 20 to 49: 190
- 50 or more: 30
- Mobile homes: 1,364
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 17
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,000
Housing units in Thomasville township with a mortgage: 5,103 (706 second mortgage, 884 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,990
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (16%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Apparel (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thomasville township:
- United States or American (33.4%)
- German (10.8%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (5.7%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Italian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (54%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Canada (4%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Colombia (4%)
- Italy (3%)
- Peru (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,205 (81%)
- Carpooled: 2,677 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 50 (0%)
- Taxi: 21 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 49 (0%)
- Walked: 182 (1%)
- Other means: 119 (1%)
- Worked at home: 298 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
406 people in nursing homes
78 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
93.5% of residents of Thomasville township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (27% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 25% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 35,589- In family households: 30,595 (7,634 male householders, 2,638 female householders)
7,814 spouses, 10,100 children (9,293 natural, 167 adopted, 640 stepchildren), 693 grandchildren, 234 brothers or sisters, 294 parents, 351 other relatives, 837 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,994 (1,840 male householders (1,460 living alone)), 2,396 female householders (2,189 living alone)), 758 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 483 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 4,686 2-persons, 2,634 3-persons, 1,947 4-persons, 699 5-persons, 178 6-persons, 128 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,649 1-person, 473 2-persons, 86 3-persons, 16 4-persons, 3 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
5,472 married couples with children.
2,219 single-parent households (504 men, 1,715 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 198
| Here: | 5.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 102
| Here: | 5.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 155
| Here: | 13.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |