Bladenboro township, Bladen County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Bladenboro township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
74% of Bladenboro township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4900
- Northeast: 157
- Midwest: 164
- South: 404
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $35,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Bladenboro township, North Carolina:
- 73 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,748
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 64
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 33
- 20 to 49: 17
- Mobile homes: 739
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Bladenboro township with a mortgage: 658 (95 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 538
- Construction (19%)
- Textile mills and textile products (12%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bladenboro township:
- United States or American (34.6%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.8%)
- German (2.7%)
- Scottish (1.1%)
- French (except Basque) (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ireland (33%)
- Korea (33%)
- Mexico (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,814 (86%)
- Carpooled: 222 (11%)
- Railroad: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (0%)
- Worked at home: 46 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Utility gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Bladenboro township, North Carolina:
- 73 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
97.1% of residents of Bladenboro township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 45% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,593- In family households: 4,706 (1,204 male householders, 406 female householders)
1,193 spouses, 1,612 children (1,534 natural, 27 adopted, 51 stepchildren), 142 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 60 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 887 (315 male householders (283 living alone)), 470 female householders (420 living alone)), 102 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 85 (77 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 751 2-persons, 404 3-persons, 307 4-persons, 105 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 703 1-person, 68 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
784 married couples with children.
356 single-parent households (78 men, 278 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 5.5% |
| 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: 7
| Here: | 2.5% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |