Average household size:
| This town: |  2.5 people | | North Carolina: |  2.5 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This town: | 57.1% | | Whole state: | 68.9% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This town: | 0.0% | | Whole state: | 4.6% |
No gay or lesbian households reported
Residents with income below the poverty level in 2008:
| This town: | 26.9% | | Whole state: | 12.3% |
Residents with income below 50% of the poverty level in 2008:
| This town: | 9.6% | | Whole state: | 5.5% |
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Speed, NC
Speed compared to North Carolina state average:
- Median household income below state average.
- Median house value below state average.
- Unemployed percentage significantly above state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly above state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age significantly above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Number of college students below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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School Enrollment by Level of School
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2004 Presidential Election results in Edgecombe County North Carolina:
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Most commonly used house heating fuel:
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- Electricity (58%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
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Religion statistics for Speed
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 33.22%
| Here | | 33.2% |
| USA | | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations.
| Name | Southern Baptist Convention | United Methodist Church | Catholic Church | Presbyterian Church (USA) | International Pentecostal Holiness Church |
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| Adherents | 40.3% | 11.3% | 10.9% | 5.7% | 5.2% |
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| Congregations | 26.3% | 10.5% | 2.6% | 11.8% | 5.3% |
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| Name | Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | Original Free Will Baptists | Episcopal Church | Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) | Other |
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| Adherents | 5.2% | 4.6% | 4.0% | 3.1% | 9.7% |
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| Congregations | 6.6% | 6.6% | 9.2% | 2.6% | 18.4% |
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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.
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Local government employment and payroll (March 2007)
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Speed government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Solid Waste Management: $1,000
- Current Operations - Central Staff Services: $39,000
Solid Waste Management: $6,000
Fire Protection: $1,000
- Local Intergovernmental - General Support: $8,000
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $20,000
Interest Earnings: $1,000
Rents: $1,000
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $56,000
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $4,000
General Support: $1,000
- Tax - Property: $8,000
- Total Salaries & Wages: $3,000
7.17% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($23,645 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 7.17% | | North Carolina average: | 8.53% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
7.74% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($26,397 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 7.74% | | North Carolina average: | 7.27% |
0.05% of residents moved to foreign countries ($98 average AGI)| Edgecombe County: | 0.05% | | North Carolina average: | 0.10% |
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Speed:
- WYAL (1280 AM; daytime; 5 kW; SCOTLAND NECK, NC)
- WCPS (760 AM; daytime; 1 kW; TARBORO, NC; Owner: JOHNSON BROADCAST VENTURES, LTD)
- WNCT (1070 AM; 10 kW; GREENVILLE, NC; Owner: WNCT LICENSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WPTF (680 AM; 50 kW; RALEIGH, NC; Owner: FIRST STATE COMMUNICATIONS)
- WFTK (1030 AM; daytime; 50 kW; WAKE FOREST, NC; Owner: POSITIVE RADIO GROUP, INC.)
- WEED (1390 AM; 5 kW; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: NORTHSTAR BROADCATING CORPORATION)
- WTAR (850 AM; 50 kW; NORFOLK, VA; Owner: SINCLAIR COMMUNICATIONS)
- WCKO (1110 AM; daytime; 50 kW; NORFOLK, VA; Owner: WORD BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.)
- WGHB (1250 AM; 5 kW; FARMVILLE, NC; Owner: CONNER MEDIA, INC.)
- WGTM (590 AM; 5 kW; WILSON, NC; Owner: SPIRIT BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WRVA (1140 AM; 50 kW; RICHMOND, VA; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- WETC (540 AM; 8 kW; WENDELL-ZEBULON, NC; Owner: CAROLINA REGIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WDLX (930 AM; 5 kW; WASHINGTON, NC; Owner: NM LICENSING, LLC)
Strongest FM radio stations in Speed:
- WTRG (100.7 FM; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WKTC (95.5 FM; PINETOPS, NC; Owner: WEQQ, INC.)
- WFXK (104.3 FM; TARBORO, NC; Owner: RADIO ONE LICENSES, LLC)
- WCBZ (103.7 FM; WILLIAMSTON, NC; Owner: ABG NORTH CAROLINA, LLC)
- WERO (93.3 FM; WASHINGTON, NC; Owner: NM LICENSING, LLC)
- WNCT-FM (107.9 FM; GREENVILLE, NC; Owner: WNCT LICENSE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WRQM (90.9 FM; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL)
- WBKU (91.7 FM; AHSOKIE, NC; Owner: AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION)
- WRSV (92.1 FM; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: NORTHSTAR BROADCATING CORPORATION)
- WRDU (106.1 FM; WILSON, NC; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WRNS-FM (95.1 FM; KINSTON, NC; Owner: NM LICENSING, LLC)
- WSAY-FM (98.5 FM; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: FIRST MEDIA RADIO, LLC)
- WGPM (94.3 FM; FARMVILLE, NC; Owner: ABG NORTH CAROLINA, LLC)
TV broadcast stations around Speed:
- WITN-TV (Channel 7; WASHINGTON, NC; Owner: WITN LICENSEE CORP.)
- WNCT-TV (Channel 9; GREENVILLE, NC; Owner: MEDIA GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WUNK-TV (Channel 25; GREENVILLE, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- WRAY-TV (Channel 30; WILSON, NC; Owner: WRAY, INC.)
- WUNP-TV (Channel 36; ROANOKE RAPIDS, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- WRPX (Channel 47; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: PAXSON RALEIGH LICENSE, INC.)
- WCTI-TV (Channel 12; NEW BERN, NC; Owner: EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WUNM-TV (Channel 19; JACKSONVILLE, NC; Owner: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA)
- WFTB-LP (Channel 55; WILLIAMSTON, ETC., NC; Owner: FREE TEMPLE MINISTRIES, INC.)
- WHIG-LP (Channel 57; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: ACTION COMMUNITY TELEVISION, INC.)
- WYDO (Channel 14; GREENVILLE, NC; Owner: PIEDMONT TELEVISION OF EASTERN CAROLINA LICENSE LLC)
- WNCR-LP (Channel 20; WILSON, NC; Owner: ON THE MAP, INC.)
- W66DK (Channel 66; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
- W60CV (Channel 60; GREENVILLE, NC; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
Speed fatal accident list:
Oct 1, 2003 10:01 AM, Rp-1506, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 3, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: Inconsistent data
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 2- Rpr 1508, Call Sign: KJD946, Licensee ID: L00471054
Assigned Frequencies : 154.160 MHz
Grant Date: 02/27/2002, Expiration Date: 02/03/2012
Registrant: Speed Vfd, Main St, Speed, NC 27881, Phone: (919) 823-5898 - Location Speed, 113 Speed Street @ Mill Pond Road, At The Speed Fd, Type: Pole, Structure height: 0 m, Overall height: 15 m, Call Sign: WQBV479
Assigned Frequencies : 1.61000 MHz
Grant Date: 12/21/2004, Expiration Date: 12/21/2014, Certifier: Mark Walters
Registrant: Highway Information Systems, 4021 Stirrup Creek Drive, Suite 100, Durham, NC 27703, Phone: (919) 361-2479, Fax: (919) 361-2948, Email:
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
Speed on our top lists:
- #41 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest number of infant deaths per 1000 residents 2000-2003 (pop. 50,000+)"
- #61 on the list of "Top 101 counties with highest percentage of residents voting for Kerry (Democrat) in the 2004 Presidential Election, pop. 50,000+"
- #64 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the largest number of people without health insurance coverage in 2000 (pop. 50,000+)"
- #89 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the largest number of children under 18 without health insurance coverage in 2000 (pop. 50,000+)"
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