Big Creek township, Stokes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (19% naturalized citizens)
| Big Creek township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Big Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 26% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1432
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 69
- South: 446
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $128,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
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: 681
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 6
- 10 to 19: 21
- Mobile homes: 233
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,400
Housing units in Big Creek township with a mortgage: 136 (0 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 122
- Construction (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (8%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (12%)
- Health care (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Creek township:
- United States or American (44.0%)
- English (21.7%)
- German (8.9%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- European (1.3%)
- Finnish (1.0%)
- Swedish (0.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (81%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 729 (80%)
- Carpooled: 124 (14%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Worked at home: 39 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (38%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Wood (17%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.0% of residents of Big Creek township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (13% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 45% speak English not well, 31% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (38% speak English very well, 62% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,021- In family households: 1,830 (509 male householders, 107 female householders)
501 spouses, 612 children (566 natural, 0 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 39 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 191 (81 male householders (76 living alone)), 103 female householders (103 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 293 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 96 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 179 1-person, 5 2-persons,
352 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (21 men, 36 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 35
| Here: | 14.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |