Watkins township, Vance County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Watkins township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Watkins township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 561
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 6
- South: 79
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
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: 191
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $66,900
Housing units in Watkins township with a mortgage: 91 (0 second mortgage, 38 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 10
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (17%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (10%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (20%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (14%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Engineers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Watkins township:
- United States or American (45.3%)
- English (8.2%)
- Scottish (7.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.0%)
- Dutch (3.0%)
- African (2.4%)
- Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 315 (88%)
- Carpooled: 26 (7%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (2%)
- Worked at home: 5 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (63%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (3%)
96.3% of residents of Watkins township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 670- In family households: 628 (189 male householders, 20 female householders)
218 spouses, 201 children (172 natural, 0 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 42 (21 male householders (16 living alone)), 15 female householders (15 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 99 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 47 4-persons, 21 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 31 1-person, 5 2-persons,
120 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (5 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 12.6% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |