Triangle township, Durham County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (24% naturalized citizens)
| Triangle township: | 12.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
43% of Triangle township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 29847
- Northeast: 9818
- Midwest: 5705
- South: 10896
- West: 2232
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $158,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Triangle township, North Carolina:
- 389 people in nursing homes
- 95 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 67 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 16,380
- One, attached: 2,928
- Two: 246
- 3 or 4: 1,265
- 5 to 9: 3,185
- 10 to 19: 3,826
- 20 to 49: 1,916
- 50 or more: 1,539
- Mobile homes: 125
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $70,900
Housing units in Triangle township with a mortgage: 13,184 (1,392 second mortgage, 2,026 home equity loan, 44 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,394
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Computer specialists (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Physicians and surgeons (5%)
- Life and physical scientists (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Life and physical scientists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Triangle township:
- English (10.1%)
- German (7.6%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- United States or American (5.8%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- European (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (19%)
- India (16%)
- Canada (6%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- Japan (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 31,531 (82%)
- Carpooled: 4,589 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 466 (1%)
- Taxi: 80 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 50 (0%)
- Bicycle: 52 (0%)
- Walked: 341 (1%)
- Other means: 174 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,342 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Utility gas (39%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Triangle township, North Carolina:
- 389 people in nursing homes
- 95 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 67 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
85.0% of residents of Triangle township speak English at home.
6.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
4.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
3.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 67,260- In family households: 51,611 (12,873 male householders, 4,449 female householders)
13,893 spouses, 16,204 children (15,069 natural, 497 adopted, 638 stepchildren), 891 grandchildren, 867 brothers or sisters, 477 parents, 897 other relatives, 1,060 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 15,649 (5,050 male householders (3,722 living alone)), 7,036 female householders (5,487 living alone)), 3,563 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 570 (368 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,969 2-persons, 4,255 3-persons, 3,220 4-persons, 1,232 5-persons, 474 6-persons, 172 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 9,209 1-person, 2,481 2-persons, 299 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
10,402 married couples with children.
2,891 single-parent households (449 men, 2,442 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,273
| Here: | 20.5% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 360
| Here: | 13.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 515
| Here: | 18.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |