Banner Elk township, Avery County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (32% naturalized citizens)
| Banner Elk township: | 3.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
46% of Banner Elk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 27% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1583
- Northeast: 179
- Midwest: 109
- South: 672
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Banner Elk township, North Carolina:
- 339 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 113 people in nursing homes
- 31 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 10 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 4 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,460
- One, attached: 79
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 282
- 5 to 9: 147
- 10 to 19: 298
- 20 to 49: 356
- 50 or more: 352
- Mobile homes: 77
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,500
Housing units in Banner Elk township with a mortgage: 316 (31 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 205
- Construction (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Health care (15%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Banner Elk township:
- English (18.5%)
- United States or American (13.7%)
- German (13.4%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Scottish (10.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (9.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (18%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (13%)
- Korea (10%)
- Other Eastern Europe (9%)
- Canada (9%)
- Russia (8%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 913 (78%)
- Carpooled: 108 (9%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 89 (8%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 58 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (39%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Banner Elk township, North Carolina:
- 339 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 113 people in nursing homes
- 31 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 10 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 4 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
91.7% of residents of Banner Elk township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,210- In family households: 1,744 (431 male householders, 171 female householders)
488 spouses, 577 children (563 natural, 5 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 14 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 466 (192 male householders (133 living alone)), 163 female householders (129 living alone)), 111 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 500 (126 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 307 2-persons, 134 3-persons, 96 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 262 1-person, 67 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
319 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (23 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
| Here: | 17.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 19.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 406
| Here: | 80.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |