Wilkesboro township, Wilkes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Wilkesboro township: | 7.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Wilkesboro 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, 46% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7371
- Northeast: 352
- Midwest: 397
- South: 1067
- West: 143
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $93,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Wilkesboro township, North Carolina:
- 281 people in nursing homes
- 257 people in state prisons
- 57 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 7 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,793
- One, attached: 65
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 130
- 5 to 9: 264
- 10 to 19: 95
- 20 to 49: 52
- Mobile homes: 862
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,000
Housing units in Wilkesboro township with a mortgage: 1,179 (127 second mortgage, 272 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 883
- Food (12%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Food (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Food processing workers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wilkesboro township:
- English (27.0%)
- United States or American (19.4%)
- German (7.0%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.5%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (48%)
- India (19%)
- Honduras (7%)
- Colombia (7%)
- Guatemala (6%)
- Canada (3%)
- Other Eastern Africa (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,670 (80%)
- Carpooled: 778 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 44 (1%)
- Other means: 15 (0%)
- Worked at home: 102 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (58%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in Wilkesboro township, North Carolina:
- 281 people in nursing homes
- 257 people in state prisons
- 57 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 7 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
91.1% of residents of Wilkesboro township speak English at home.
6.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 31% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,481- In family households: 8,130 (2,211 male householders, 600 female householders)
2,220 spouses, 2,558 children (2,377 natural, 55 adopted, 126 stepchildren), 155 grandchildren, 61 brothers or sisters, 49 parents, 141 other relatives, 135 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,351 (515 male householders (466 living alone)), 731 female householders (694 living alone)), 105 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 599 (593 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,350 2-persons, 748 3-persons, 484 4-persons, 139 5-persons, 76 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,160 1-person, 74 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
1,430 married couples with children.
522 single-parent households (96 men, 426 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
| Here: | 2.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
| Here: | 2.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 2.5% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |