Topsail township, Pender County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Topsail township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
54% of Topsail township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 21% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7432
- Northeast: 2444
- Midwest: 1170
- South: 1918
- West: 457
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $105,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,715
- One, attached: 206
- Two: 179
- 3 or 4: 109
- 5 to 9: 79
- 10 to 19: 121
- 20 to 49: 128
- 50 or more: 42
- Mobile homes: 2,587
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,100
Housing units in Topsail township with a mortgage: 2,314 (207 second mortgage, 468 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,131
- Construction (20%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Topsail township:
- United States or American (18.2%)
- English (13.7%)
- German (12.2%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.9%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (16%)
- Canada (14%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- India (9%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (9%)
- Russia (5%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,325 (83%)
- Carpooled: 590 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 87 (1%)
- Other means: 62 (1%)
- Worked at home: 311 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (84%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.2% of residents of Topsail township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 48% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,801- In family households: 11,932 (3,674 male householders, 659 female householders)
3,812 spouses, 3,173 children (2,684 natural, 136 adopted, 353 stepchildren), 146 grandchildren, 75 brothers or sisters, 130 parents, 136 other relatives, 127 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,869 (800 male householders (619 living alone)), 753 female householders (667 living alone)), 316 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,532 2-persons, 795 3-persons, 642 4-persons, 293 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,286 1-person, 229 2-persons, 34 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
2,041 married couples with children.
456 single-parent households (143 men, 313 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 60
| Here: | 4.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 4.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 9.5% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |