Upper Creek township, Burke County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Creek township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Upper Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 903
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 31
- South: 285
- West: 39
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 307
- 3 or 4: 10
- Mobile homes: 209
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,900
Housing units in Upper Creek township with a mortgage: 79 (17 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 68
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (21%)
- Construction (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (25%)
- Food and beverage stores (18%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (15%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (17%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (11%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Creek township:
- United States or American (22.2%)
- German (19.1%)
- European (14.9%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- English (7.7%)
- French (except Basque) (5.2%)
- Scottish (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (61%)
- United Kingdom (39%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 543 (78%)
- Carpooled: 87 (12%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 54 (8%)
- Worked at home: 8 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (12%)
- Other fuel (2%)
95.7% of residents of Upper Creek township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,342- In family households: 1,112 (259 male householders, 79 female householders)
249 spouses, 404 children (356 natural, 0 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 23 other relatives, 68 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 230 (120 male householders (91 living alone)), 60 female householders (60 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 95 2-persons, 104 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 22 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 151 1-person, 20 2-persons, 9 4-persons,
248 married couples with children.
76 single-parent households (30 men, 46 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): 7
| Here: | 6.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |