White Oak township, Haywood County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (69% naturalized citizens)
| White Oak township: | 4.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of White Oak township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1114
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 131
- South: 28
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $49,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 557
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in White Oak township with a mortgage: 207 (10 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 183
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (32%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (17%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (12%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in White Oak township:
- German (54.3%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Norwegian (9.0%)
- English (7.4%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
- Dutch (1.7%)
- Czech (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (54%)
- Romania (31%)
- Other Western Europe (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 495 (78%)
- Carpooled: 72 (11%)
- Walked: 38 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 31 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
98.2% of residents of White Oak township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,293- In family households: 1,080 (319 male householders, 54 female householders)
326 spouses, 327 children (291 natural, 11 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 5 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 213 (82 male householders (65 living alone)), 93 female householders (89 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 57 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 201 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 80 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 154 1-person, 13 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
40 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (6 men, 1 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.4% |
| 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: 4
| Here: | 19.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |