Arcadia township, Davidson County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (44% naturalized citizens)
Arcadia township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Arcadia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6011
- Northeast: 441
- Midwest: 537
- South: 1230
- West: 137
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $133,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,786
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 9
- Mobile homes: 438
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,800
Housing units in Arcadia township with a mortgage: 1,900 (158 second mortgage, 499 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 555
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (2%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Arcadia township:
- United States or American (22.6%)
- German (19.3%)
- English (14.1%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- European (3.2%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Egypt (31%)
- United Kingdom (31%)
- Germany (11%)
- Other Western Africa (8%)
- France (6%)
- Italy (6%)
- Honduras (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,151 (88%)
- Carpooled: 455 (10%)
- Walked: 32 (1%)
- Other means: 23 (0%)
- Worked at home: 82 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (75%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (2%)
96.7% of residents of Arcadia township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (61% speak English very well, 39% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,559- In family households: 7,927 (2,277 male householders, 336 female householders)
2,395 spouses, 2,669 children (2,312 natural, 159 adopted, 198 stepchildren), 122 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 22 other relatives, 64 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 632 (330 male householders (276 living alone)), 244 female householders (228 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,064 2-persons, 743 3-persons, 557 4-persons, 190 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 504 1-person, 70 2-persons,
1,918 married couples with children.
256 single-parent households (85 men, 171 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 86
Here: | 8.5% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 67
Here: | 11.2% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
Here: | 16.7% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |