Grant township, Randolph County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (65% naturalized citizens)
| Grant township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Grant 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, 31% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3842
- Northeast: 196
- Midwest: 268
- South: 568
- West: 44
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $128,100
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: 0.2% of all households
208 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
11 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,084
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 24
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 823
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,400
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 559 (89 second mortgage, 92 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 223
- Construction (13%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- United States or American (41.8%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- German (9.1%)
- English (6.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- Italian (1.4%)
- Scottish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (35%)
- Nicaragua (27%)
- Germany (24%)
- Thailand (6%)
- Brazil (6%)
- Cuba (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,177 (90%)
- Carpooled: 187 (8%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 43 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
208 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
11 people in other group homes
96.0% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,885- In family households: 4,230 (1,065 male householders, 245 female householders)
1,117 spouses, 1,615 children (1,502 natural, 19 adopted, 94 stepchildren), 72 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 48 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 655 (217 male householders (187 living alone)), 332 female householders (287 living alone)), 106 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 218 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 501 2-persons, 301 3-persons, 299 4-persons, 155 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 474 1-person, 52 2-persons, 23 3-persons,
931 married couples with children.
274 single-parent households (95 men, 179 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 56
| Here: | 8.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
| Here: | 13.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |