White Oak township, Polk County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (21% naturalized citizens)
White Oak township: | 5.7% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of White Oak township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 42% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1273
- Northeast: 136
- Midwest: 91
- South: 375
- West: 27
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 488
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 8
- Mobile homes: 441
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,400
Housing units in White Oak township with a mortgage: 100 (7 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 109
- Construction (19%)
- Textile mills and textile products (16%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (16%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (12%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Bus drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in White Oak township:
- United States or American (27.7%)
- Irish (17.8%)
- English (14.0%)
- German (7.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (42%)
- Other Eastern Europe (26%)
- Germany (12%)
- Spain (9%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Austria (3%)
- Other Western Europe (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 587 (66%)
- Carpooled: 226 (25%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 45 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
91.5% of residents of White Oak township speak English at home.
4.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,043- In family households: 1,795 (427 male householders, 142 female householders)
448 spouses, 680 children (638 natural, 7 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 20 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 248 (126 male householders (112 living alone)), 107 female householders (107 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 241 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 121 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 219 1-person, 14 2-persons,
360 married couples with children.
106 single-parent households (39 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 7.3% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 5.9% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |