Lanes Creek township, Union County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (6% naturalized citizens)
| Lanes Creek township: | 3.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
60% of Lanes Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 28% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1656
- Northeast: 95
- Midwest: 85
- South: 409
- West: 6
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 609
- Mobile homes: 226
Median worth of mobile homes: $67,200
Housing units in Lanes Creek township with a mortgage: 210 (54 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 17
- Construction (19%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Construction (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lanes Creek township:
- United States or American (32.2%)
- German (13.9%)
- Irish (5.8%)
- English (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Czech (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (94%)
- Other South America (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 786 (77%)
- Carpooled: 142 (14%)
- Other means: 29 (3%)
- Worked at home: 61 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (7%)
- No fuel used (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Solar energy (2%)
93.7% of residents of Lanes Creek township speak English at home.
5.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,333- In family households: 2,145 (556 male householders, 53 female householders)
524 spouses, 814 children (674 natural, 60 adopted, 80 stepchildren), 80 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 31 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 188 (88 male householders (75 living alone)), 82 female householders (82 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 201 2-persons, 149 3-persons, 127 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 35 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 157 1-person, 13 2-persons,
498 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (33 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 3.2% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 8.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 47.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |