White Oak township, Carteret County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (61% naturalized citizens)
| White Oak township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
52% of White Oak township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 29% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4654
- Northeast: 1970
- Midwest: 867
- South: 1762
- West: 426
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $125,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,265
- One, attached: 193
- Two: 362
- 3 or 4: 187
- 5 to 9: 121
- 10 to 19: 139
- 20 to 49: 464
- 50 or more: 21
- Mobile homes: 2,938
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $56,200
Housing units in White Oak township with a mortgage: 1,507 (117 second mortgage, 281 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 992
- Construction (20%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in White Oak township:
- English (19.1%)
- United States or American (19.0%)
- Irish (14.3%)
- German (13.0%)
- Italian (4.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- Scottish (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (26%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Canada (13%)
- South Africa (8%)
- Yugoslavia (7%)
- Japan (7%)
- Mexico (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,532 (78%)
- Carpooled: 654 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 72 (2%)
- Other means: 40 (1%)
- Worked at home: 191 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.1% of residents of White Oak township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,988- In family households: 8,479 (2,696 male householders, 459 female householders)
2,751 spouses, 2,153 children (1,914 natural, 81 adopted, 158 stepchildren), 103 grandchildren, 75 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 57 other relatives, 146 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,509 (592 male householders (473 living alone)), 677 female householders (585 living alone)), 240 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,832 2-persons, 625 3-persons, 467 4-persons, 179 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,058 1-person, 180 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
1,377 married couples with children.
318 single-parent households (92 men, 226 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 129
| Here: | 15.7% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 31
| Here: | 6.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 55
| Here: | 16.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |