Union township, Wilkes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 965
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 19
- South: 146
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 456
- One, attached: 7
- Mobile homes: 167
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,700
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 61 (0 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 105
- Construction (20%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (13%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Woodworkers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- United States or American (26.4%)
- German (24.3%)
- English (16.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.8%)
- Scottish (4.6%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- El Salvador (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 492 (77%)
- Carpooled: 137 (21%)
- Worked at home: 10 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (39%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (12%)
96.1% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,175- In family households: 1,037 (285 male householders, 54 female householders)
285 spouses, 291 children (235 natural, 6 adopted, 50 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 44 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 138 (65 male householders (45 living alone)), 45 female householders (33 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 132 2-persons, 132 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 13 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 78 1-person, 32 2-persons,
190 married couples with children.
29 single-parent households (10 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 26.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |