Wilmington township, New Hanover County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (80% naturalized citizens)
Wilmington township: | 0.0% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
47% of Wilmington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 526
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 116
- South: 276
- West: 125
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Wilmington township, North Carolina:
- 1,923 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 688 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 376 people in nursing homes
- 298 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 118 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 97 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 36 people in state prisons
- 22 people in other group homes
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 9 people in military hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 6 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 268
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 154
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,100
Housing units in Wilmington township with a mortgage: 50 (6 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 29
- Construction (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wilmington township:
- United States or American (30.7%)
- Irish (14.9%)
- English (12.5%)
- German (12.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- French Canadian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (80%)
- Germany (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 300 (79%)
- Carpooled: 50 (13%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (60%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (12%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- No fuel used (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Wilmington township, North Carolina:
- 1,923 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 688 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 376 people in nursing homes
- 298 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 118 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 97 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 36 people in state prisons
- 22 people in other group homes
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 9 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 9 people in military hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 6 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 4 people in religious group quarters
98.7% of residents of Wilmington township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,079- In family households: 975 (261 male householders, 55 female householders)
262 spouses, 344 children (332 natural, 2 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 6 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 104 (51 male householders (46 living alone)), 43 female householders (38 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 142 2-persons, 76 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 84 1-person, 10 2-persons,
6,564 married couples with children.
5,482 single-parent households (604 men, 4,878 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
Here: | 12.6% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 5.0% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |