Chambersburg township, Iredell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (24% naturalized citizens)
| Chambersburg township: | 3.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Chambersburg township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6335
- Northeast: 767
- Midwest: 637
- South: 1628
- West: 130
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
68 people in other group homes
64 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,754
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 36
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 77
- 10 to 19: 56
- 50 or more: 18
- Mobile homes: 1,086
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,500
Housing units in Chambersburg township with a mortgage: 1,508 (143 second mortgage, 279 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 650
- Construction (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chambersburg township:
- United States or American (21.3%)
- English (14.3%)
- German (12.9%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.0%)
- Italian (3.1%)
- Scottish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (43%)
- Japan (15%)
- Vietnam (13%)
- Colombia (11%)
- Ecuador (8%)
- Canada (6%)
- Laos (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,048 (85%)
- Carpooled: 559 (12%)
- Walked: 21 (0%)
- Worked at home: 115 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
68 people in other group homes
64 people in homes for the mentally retarded
93.2% of residents of Chambersburg township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (7% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 66% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,692- In family households: 8,606 (2,250 male householders, 542 female householders)
2,357 spouses, 2,951 children (2,776 natural, 43 adopted, 132 stepchildren), 106 grandchildren, 41 brothers or sisters, 58 parents, 101 other relatives, 200 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,086 (489 male householders (425 living alone)), 456 female householders (410 living alone)), 141 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 186 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,187 2-persons, 721 3-persons, 600 4-persons, 220 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 835 1-person, 87 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 12 4-persons,
1,823 married couples with children.
511 single-parent households (150 men, 361 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 102
| Here: | 9.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 2.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 20
| Here: | 6.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |