Waccamaw township, Brunswick County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (22% naturalized citizens)
Waccamaw township: | 4.9% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Waccamaw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2164
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 57
- South: 324
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 643
- One, attached: 10
- Mobile homes: 543
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,100
Housing units in Waccamaw township with a mortgage: 201 (10 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 154
- Construction (32%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Waccamaw township:
- United States or American (23.5%)
- English (22.7%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.0%)
- German (3.4%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (90%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Israel (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 976 (75%)
- Carpooled: 213 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 39 (3%)
- Other means: 34 (3%)
- Worked at home: 30 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
91.9% of residents of Waccamaw township speak English at home.
6.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 40% speak English not well, 37% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,812- In family households: 2,560 (621 male householders, 182 female householders)
670 spouses, 876 children (819 natural, 33 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 42 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 62 other relatives, 55 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 252 (126 male householders (115 living alone)), 109 female householders (109 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 277 2-persons, 252 3-persons, 149 4-persons, 92 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 224 1-person, 9 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
506 married couples with children.
153 single-parent households (47 men, 106 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
Here: | 3.1% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 2.0% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |