Wilson township, Wilson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Wilson township: | 6.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Wilson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 33477
- Northeast: 1772
- Midwest: 869
- South: 3525
- West: 351
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
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 Wilson township, North Carolina:
- 792 people in nursing homes
- 398 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 200 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 148 people in other group homes
- 120 people in institutions for the deaf
- 83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 18 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 11,221
- One, attached: 612
- Two: 2,114
- 3 or 4: 1,363
- 5 to 9: 1,120
- 10 to 19: 264
- 20 to 49: 169
- 50 or more: 371
- Mobile homes: 838
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Wilson township with a mortgage: 5,285 (539 second mortgage, 1,163 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,253
- Construction (13%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Apparel (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wilson township:
- United States or American (15.4%)
- English (7.4%)
- German (3.2%)
- Irish (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
- Scottish (1.1%)
- Italian (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (78%)
- El Salvador (3%)
- Iran (2%)
- United Kingdom (1%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (1%)
- Japan (1%)
- Korea (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,918 (76%)
- Carpooled: 3,183 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 87 (0%)
- Taxi: 203 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 21 (0%)
- Bicycle: 78 (0%)
- Walked: 276 (2%)
- Other means: 205 (1%)
- Worked at home: 254 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Electricity (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Wilson township, North Carolina:
- 792 people in nursing homes
- 398 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 200 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 148 people in other group homes
- 120 people in institutions for the deaf
- 83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 18 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
90.0% of residents of Wilson township speak English at home.
8.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (28% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 24% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (41% speak English very well, 59% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 41,304- In family households: 34,542 (6,918 male householders, 4,140 female householders)
6,788 spouses, 12,372 children (11,346 natural, 261 adopted, 765 stepchildren), 1,299 grandchildren, 705 brothers or sisters, 385 parents, 837 other relatives, 1,098 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,762 (2,296 male householders (1,897 living alone)), 3,451 female householders (3,069 living alone)), 1,015 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,764 (1,070 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,682 2-persons, 2,791 3-persons, 2,074 4-persons, 913 5-persons, 363 6-persons, 235 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,966 1-person, 654 2-persons, 68 3-persons, 32 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
5,305 married couples with children.
4,014 single-parent households (482 men, 3,532 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 442
| Here: | 8.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 159
| Here: | 6.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 911
| Here: | 44.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |