Lower Creek township, Caldwell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
Lower Creek township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
58% of Lower Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9734
- Northeast: 452
- Midwest: 318
- South: 1354
- West: 118
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Lower Creek township, North Carolina:
- 103 people in nursing homes
- 63 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 19 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,925
- One, attached: 85
- Two: 172
- 3 or 4: 135
- 5 to 9: 249
- 10 to 19: 101
- 20 to 49: 105
- 50 or more: 172
- Mobile homes: 541
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,300
Housing units in Lower Creek township with a mortgage: 1,772 (179 second mortgage, 328 home equity loan, 21 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,257
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (22%)
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (19%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Creek township:
- United States or American (30.2%)
- English (11.9%)
- German (11.4%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- Italian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (34%)
- Honduras (26%)
- Germany (11%)
- Guatemala (7%)
- Laos (5%)
- Japan (4%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,699 (84%)
- Carpooled: 692 (12%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 59 (1%)
- Other means: 36 (1%)
- Worked at home: 120 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Lower Creek township, North Carolina:
- 103 people in nursing homes
- 63 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 19 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.0% of residents of Lower Creek township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,079- In family households: 10,193 (2,554 male householders, 908 female householders)
2,645 spouses, 3,302 children (2,996 natural, 65 adopted, 241 stepchildren), 322 grandchildren, 56 brothers or sisters, 80 parents, 112 other relatives, 214 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,886 (579 male householders (467 living alone)), 1,051 female householders (963 living alone)), 256 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 186 (129 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,748 2-persons, 858 3-persons, 525 4-persons, 194 5-persons, 89 6-persons, 48 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,430 1-person, 173 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
1,737 married couples with children.
825 single-parent households (151 men, 674 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 0.4% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 34
Here: | 4.9% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
Here: | 5.3% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |