Thompson township, Robeson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Thompson township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Thompson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 16% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 921
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 0
- South: 104
- West: 77
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 341
- 5 to 9: 16
- Mobile homes: 155
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,700
Housing units in Thompson township with a mortgage: 76 (10 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 58
- Construction (14%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Apparel (13%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (6%)
- Book stores and news dealers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (14%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (15%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (12%)
- Health technologists and technicians (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thompson township:
- United States or American (8.0%)
- English (4.8%)
- Scottish (3.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
- German (0.6%)
- Irish (0.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 330 (64%)
- Carpooled: 168 (32%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (39%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Utility gas (2%)
89.2% of residents of Thompson township speak English at home.
6.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 44% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
2.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (86% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,152- In family households: 1,054 (216 male householders, 90 female householders)
220 spouses, 384 children (337 natural, 21 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 65 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 28 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 98 (52 male householders (42 living alone)), 35 female householders (35 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 135 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 77 1-person, 10 2-persons,
165 married couples with children.
108 single-parent households (28 men, 80 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 1.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 14.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |