Whiteville township, Columbus County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (35% naturalized citizens)
| Whiteville township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Whiteville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8966
- Northeast: 516
- Midwest: 203
- South: 1319
- West: 102
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,000
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: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Whiteville township, North Carolina:
- 686 people in state prisons
- 172 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 85 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 27 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,337
- One, attached: 59
- Two: 125
- 3 or 4: 193
- 5 to 9: 140
- 10 to 19: 9
- 20 to 49: 47
- 50 or more: 24
- Mobile homes: 839
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 1
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,100
Housing units in Whiteville township with a mortgage: 1,260 (101 second mortgage, 187 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,055
- Construction (12%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Whiteville township:
- United States or American (20.4%)
- English (9.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.0%)
- Irish (3.1%)
- German (2.9%)
- European (2.7%)
- African (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (25%)
- Mexico (15%)
- Germany (13%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Other Western Asia (7%)
- Other Caribbean (6%)
- Europe, n.e.c. (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,207 (81%)
- Carpooled: 500 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 2 (0%)
- Railroad: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 95 (2%)
- Other means: 56 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Whiteville township, North Carolina:
- 686 people in state prisons
- 172 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 85 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 27 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.8% of residents of Whiteville township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (44% speak English very well, 56% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,289- In family households: 8,763 (1,789 male householders, 1,100 female householders)
1,926 spouses, 3,187 children (2,979 natural, 71 adopted, 137 stepchildren), 309 grandchildren, 66 brothers or sisters, 58 parents, 129 other relatives, 199 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,526 (542 male householders (471 living alone)), 873 female householders (838 living alone)), 111 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 984 (774 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,266 2-persons, 727 3-persons, 560 4-persons, 208 5-persons, 104 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,309 1-person, 99 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
1,265 married couples with children.
978 single-parent households (109 men, 869 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 77
| Here: | 5.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 44
| Here: | 6.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
| Here: | 6.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |