Tyro township, Davidson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Tyro township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Tyro 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, 68% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6225
- Northeast: 309
- Midwest: 193
- South: 994
- West: 90
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $126,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,152
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 59
- 3 or 4: 45
- Mobile homes: 1,019
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,200
Housing units in Tyro township with a mortgage: 1,066 (149 second mortgage, 195 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 546
- Construction (17%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tyro township:
- United States or American (44.7%)
- German (20.7%)
- English (6.7%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- Italian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (55%)
- Germany (15%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Cuba (8%)
- Canada (7%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,405 (86%)
- Carpooled: 488 (12%)
- Walked: 45 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (53%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Wood (5%)
95.4% of residents of Tyro township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (49% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 47% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,990- In family households: 7,183 (1,996 male householders, 362 female householders)
2,119 spouses, 2,343 children (2,127 natural, 17 adopted, 199 stepchildren), 142 grandchildren, 45 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 71 other relatives, 75 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 807 (363 male householders (303 living alone)), 357 female householders (352 living alone)), 87 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,024 2-persons, 637 3-persons, 445 4-persons, 181 5-persons, 68 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 655 1-person, 56 2-persons, 9 4-persons,
1,408 married couples with children.
387 single-parent households (132 men, 255 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 91
| Here: | 9.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
| Here: | 4.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 6.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |