Troy township, Montgomery County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Troy township: | 4.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Troy 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, 56% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4939
- Northeast: 147
- Midwest: 95
- South: 672
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
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
People in group quarters in Troy township, North Carolina:
- 753 people in state prisons
- 49 people in nursing homes
- 36 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,572
- One, attached: 47
- Two: 103
- 3 or 4: 105
- 5 to 9: 84
- 10 to 19: 15
- 20 to 49: 22
- 50 or more: 14
- Mobile homes: 379
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,900
Housing units in Troy township with a mortgage: 496 (46 second mortgage, 101 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 509
- Construction (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Apparel (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (15%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Troy township:
- United States or American (27.5%)
- English (8.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- German (3.4%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
- European (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (77%)
- Laos (10%)
- Philippines (4%)
- India (3%)
- Germany (2%)
- Canada (1%)
- Thailand (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,730 (73%)
- Carpooled: 516 (22%)
- Walked: 69 (3%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 56 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Troy township, North Carolina:
- 753 people in state prisons
- 49 people in nursing homes
- 36 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
89.1% of residents of Troy township speak English at home.
8.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,369- In family households: 4,685 (1,046 male householders, 483 female householders)
1,114 spouses, 1,578 children (1,452 natural, 16 adopted, 110 stepchildren), 195 grandchildren, 78 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 81 other relatives, 87 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 684 (243 male householders (208 living alone)), 388 female householders (384 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 843 (841 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 694 2-persons, 378 3-persons, 283 4-persons, 99 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 592 1-person, 27 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
841 married couples with children.
415 single-parent households (81 men, 334 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 0.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 5.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 75
| Here: | 32.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |