Transylvania County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
Air pollution and air quality trends (lower is better)
AQI
Ozone
PM10
Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2010 was 25.3. This is better than average.
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2009 was 13.8. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 23.5 miles away from the city center.
Drinking water stations with addresses in Rosman and their reported violations in the past:
EAST FORK BAPTIST CHURCH (Population served: 80, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:
- One routine major monitoring violation
- One regular monitoring violation
OLD TOXAWAY BAPTIST CHURCH (Population served: 50, Groundwater):
Past monitoring violations:
- Other Non-NPDWR Potential Health Risks - Between FEB-22-2003 and DEC-31-2025, Contaminant: Public Notice
- 4 routine major monitoring violations
- One regular monitoring violation
MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH (Population served: 25, Groundwater):
Past health violations:
- MCL, Monthly (TCR) - In JUN-2000, Contaminant: Coliform. Follow-up actions: St Formal NOV issued (JUN-30-2000), St Public Notif requested (JUN-30-2000), St Compliance achieved (APR-30-2001)
Past monitoring violations:
- 2 routine major monitoring violations
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 42.8%
(39.3% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 100.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents)
Average household size:
| This town: | 2.5 people | | North Carolina: | 2.4 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This town: | 65.2% | | Whole state: | 67.7% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This town: | 4.8% | | Whole state: | 4.6% |
No gay or lesbian households reported
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Rosman, NC
Rosman compared to North Carolina state average:
- Median household income below state average.
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Number of college students significantly below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (41%)
- Electricity (37%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (7%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Transylvania County North Carolina:
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Religion statistics for Rosman (based on Transylvania County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 59.91%
| Here |  | 59.9% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Southern Baptist Convention | Catholic Church | United Methodist Church | Episcopal Church | The Wesleyan Church |
| Adherents | 66.4% | 9.3% | 9.2% | 3.2% | 2.6% |
| Congregations | 51.6% | 3.2% | 9.7% | 1.6% | 3.2% |
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| Name | Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Presbyterian Church in America | American Baptist Churches in the USA | Other |
| Adherents | 2.6% | 1.6% | 1.6% | 1.2% | 2.3% |
| Congregations | 6.5% | 1.6% | 3.2% | 1.6% | 17.7% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 7 | Transylvania County: | 2.34 / 10,000 pop. | | North Carolina: | 2.05 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 2 | Transylvania County: | 0.67 / 10,000 pop. | | North Carolina: | 0.92 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 12 | Transylvania County: | 4.01 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 4.75 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 31 | Here: | 10.35 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 7.57 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | This county: | 10.0% | | North Carolina: | 9.8% |
Adult obesity rate: | Transylvania County: | 24.2% | | North Carolina: | 28.3% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate: | This county: | 15.3% | | State: | 15.6% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Other Government Administration |
1 | $3,074 | $36,888 | 1 | $190 |
| Solid Waste Management |
2 | $3,809 | $22,854 | 1 | $452 |
| Totals for Government |
3 | $6,883 | $27,532 | 2 | $642 |
Rosman government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Sewerage: $127,000 ($220.49)
Solid Waste Management: $57,000 ($98.96)
- Construction - Water Utilities: $362,000 ($628.47)
- Current Operations - Sewerage: $77,000 ($133.68)
General Public Buildings: $51,000 ($88.54)
Water Utilities: $33,000 ($57.29)
Solid Waste Management: $22,000 ($38.19)
Financial Administration: $18,000 ($31.25)
General - Other: $9,000 ($15.63)
Central Staff Services: $7,000 ($12.15)
Regular Highways: $4,000 ($6.94)
Judicial and Legal Services: $3,000 ($5.21)
- General - Interest on Debt: $8,000 ($13.89)
- Local Intergovernmental - All Other: $359,000 ($623.26)
General Support: $17,000 ($29.51)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $132,000 ($229.17)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $139,000 ($241.32)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $133,000 ($230.90)
Full Faith & Credit - Water Utilities: $125,000 ($217.01)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Water Utilities: $7,000 ($12.15)
Other, NEC: $6,000 ($10.42)
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $2,000 ($3.47)
General Revenue, NEC: $1,000 ($1.74)
- Other Capital Outlay - Financial Administration: $1,000 ($1.74)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $256,000 ($444.44)
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $54,000 ($93.75)
- State Intergovernmental - General Support: $16,000 ($27.78)
Highways: $15,000 ($26.04)
- Tax - Property: $53,000 ($92.01)
NEC: $1,000 ($1.74)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $77,000 ($133.68)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $8,000 ($13.89)
7.30% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($54,471 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 7.30% | | North Carolina average: | 8.53% |
0.11% of residents moved from foreign countries ($596 average AGI)| Transylvania County: | 0.11% | | North Carolina average: | 0.17% |
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.71% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($39,867 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 6.71% | | North Carolina average: | 7.27% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Rosman:
- WGCR (720 AM; daytime; 10 kW; PISGAH FOREST, NC; Owner: ANCHOR BAPTIST BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION)
- WLFJ (660 AM; daytime; 50 kW; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WCSZ (1070 AM; 50 kW; SANS SOUCI, SC; Owner: WHYZ RADIO, L.P.)
- WFGW (1010 AM; 50 kW; BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC; Owner: BLUE RIDGE BROADCASTING CORP.)
- WTBI (1540 AM; daytime; 10 kW; PICKENS, SC; Owner: TABERNACLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS)
- WKJV (1380 AM; 25 kW; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: INTERNATIONAL BAPTIST OUTREACH MISSIONS)
- WSQL (1240 AM; 1 kW; BREVARD, NC; Owner: A & L BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WJFJ (1160 AM; 10 kW; TRYON, NC; Owner: COLUMBUS BROADCAST CORPORATION, INC.)
- WWNC (570 AM; 5 kW; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WOXL (970 AM; 5 kW; CANTON, NC; Owner: SAGA COMMUNICATIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, LLC)
- WKVL (850 AM; daytime; 50 kW; KNOXVILLE, TN; Owner: HORNE RADIO, LLC)
- WELP (1360 AM; 5 kW; EASLEY, SC)
- WBCU (1460 AM; 50 kW; UNION, SC)
Strongest FM radio stations in Rosman:
- W218AD (91.5 FM; BREVARD, NC; Owner: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO)
- WESC-FM (92.5 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WKSF (99.9 FM; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- W220CD (91.9 FM; ENKA, NC; Owner: CALVARY CHAPEL OF TWIN FALLS, INC.)
- WMYI (102.5 FM; HENDERSONVILLE, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- W237AR (95.3 FM; HAZELWOOD, ETC., NC; Owner: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO)
- WSPA-FM (98.9 FM; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WFBC-FM (93.7 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: ENTERCOM GREENVILLE LICENSE, LLC)
- WHLC (104.5 FM; HIGHLANDS, NC; Owner: CHARISMA RADIO CORP.)
- WTPT (93.3 FM; FOREST CITY, NC; Owner: UPSTATE BROADCASTING, LLC)
- W269AY (101.7 FM; HIGHLANDS, NC; Owner: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO)
- WQNS (104.9 FM; WAYNESVILLE, NC; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WMIT (106.9 FM; BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC; Owner: BLUE RIDGE BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WNCW (88.7 FM; SPINDALE, NC; Owner: ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE)
- W277AL (103.3 FM; HIGHLANDS, NC; Owner: CHARISMA RADIO CORPORATION)
- WFQS (91.3 FM; FRANKLIN, NC; Owner: WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO)
- WNCC-FM (96.7 FM; FRANKLIN, NC; Owner: SUTTON RADIOCASTING CORPORATION)
- WMUU-FM (94.5 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: WMUU, INC.)
- WEPR (90.1 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TV COMMISSION)
- WLFJ-FM (89.3 FM; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: RADIO TRAINING NETWORK, INC.)
TV broadcast stations around Rosman:
- WHNS (Channel 21; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: MEREDITH CORPORATION)
- WYFF (Channel 4; GREENVILLE, SC; Owner: WYFF HEARST-ARGYLE TELEVISION, INC.)
- WASV-TV (Channel 62; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL BROADCASTING OF SOUTH CAROLINA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- W50AB (Channel 50; HIAWASSEE, GA; Owner: GEORGIA PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION)
- W68DM (Channel 68; BREVARD, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- WSPA-TV (Channel 7; SPARTANBURG, SC; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL BROADCASTING OF SO. CAROLINA HOLDINGS, INC.)
- W51CK (Channel 51; TALBERT, KY; Owner: MS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
- WLOS (Channel 13; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: WLOS LICENSEE, LLC)
- WUNF-TV (Channel 33; ASHEVILLE, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers: 1 - A Top Toxaway Mountain (Lat: 35.131750 Lon: -82.983194), Type: Tower, Structure height: 15 m, Overall height: 21 m, Call Sign: WPTF832
Assigned Frequencies: 462.850 MHz Grant Date: 09/24/2001, Expiration Date: 09/24/2011, Certifier: Larry Manning
Registrant: L & M Communications, 101 Mason St, Mountain Home, NC 28758, Phone: (828) 692-9065, Fax: (828) 696-9864
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 3 - 2 Mi Ne Us 64 (Lat: 35.163722 Lon: -82.812639), Type: Tower, Structure height: 24 m, Overall height: 27 m, Call Sign: KYB876
Assigned Frequencies: 47.0200 MHz, 47.0200 MHz, 47.2600 MHz Grant Date: 03/01/2002, Expiration Date: 05/22/2012, Certifier: John M Burns Jr
Registrant: Department Of Transportation, 4809 Beryl Rd, Raleigh, NC 27606, Fax: (919) 733-1192 - Off Newton Rd. (Lat: 35.150778 Lon: -82.819556), Type: Tank, Structure height: 7.3 m, Overall height: 11 m, Call Sign: WPWH707
Assigned Frequencies: 453.237 MHz Grant Date: 11/19/2002, Expiration Date: 11/19/2012, Certifier: Johnny H Rogers
Registrant: Electronic Products Design, Inc, Wendell, NC 27591, Phone: (919) 365-9199, Fax: (919) 365-7005, Email:
- Lat: 35.144028 Lon: -82.820583, Call Sign: WQDB567
Assigned Frequencies: 72.1000 MHz Grant Date: 07/14/2005, Expiration Date: 07/14/2015, Certifier: Robert Richards
Registrant: Primex Wireless, Inc., N3211 County Road H, Lake Geneva, WI 53147, Phone: (262) 248-3000, Fax: (262) 248-3000
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 9 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Rosman)
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
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| Most common first names in Rosman, NC among deceased individuals |
| Name | Count | Lived (average) |
| Robert | 21 | 69.6 years |
| William | 16 | 71.4 years |
| John | 16 | 70.6 years |
| James | 9 | 75.0 years |
| Charles | 7 | 64.9 years |
| Mary | 5 | 76.2 years |
| Betty | 5 | 73.6 years |
| Harold | 5 | 67.4 years |
| Beulah | 5 | 78.4 years |
| Mamie | 5 | 87.6 years |
| Most common last names in Rosman, NC among deceased individuals |
| Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
| Galloway | 48 | 75.2 years |
| Powell | 27 | 74.8 years |
| Whitmire | 21 | 75.2 years |
| Chapman | 17 | 74.0 years |
| Owen | 15 | 70.7 years |
| Morgan | 14 | 75.7 years |
| Dodson | 10 | 74.2 years |
| Raines | 9 | 71.6 years |
| Aiken | 6 | 73.8 years |
| Chappell | 6 | 76.7 years |
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