Burnsville township, Yancey County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Burnsville township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
52% of Burnsville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% 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: 1377
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 165
- South: 22
- West: 28
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Burnsville township, North Carolina:
- 110 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 541
- One, attached: 7
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 12
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $95,000
Housing units in Burnsville township with a mortgage: 244 (23 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 62
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (21%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Burnsville township:
- German (19.4%)
- English (15.9%)
- Irish (14.6%)
- United States or American (12.9%)
- Dutch (8.1%)
- European (6.1%)
- Danish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (64%)
- Canada (32%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 774 (84%)
- Carpooled: 91 (10%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 48 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
People in group quarters in Burnsville township, North Carolina:
- 110 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.5% of residents of Burnsville township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (13% speak English very well, 88% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,640- In family households: 1,540 (430 male householders, 71 female householders)
442 spouses, 563 children (493 natural, 55 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 1 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 100 (51 male householders (36 living alone)), 35 female householders (35 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 220 2-persons, 107 3-persons, 100 4-persons, 59 5-persons, 15 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 71 1-person, 15 2-persons,
571 married couples with children.
255 single-parent households (54 men, 201 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 2.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 3.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 21.4% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |