Chapel Hill township, Orange County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 12 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Chapel Hill township: | 11.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
36% of Chapel Hill township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 24% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 29772
- Northeast: 13912
- Midwest: 7893
- South: 13664
- West: 3795
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $274,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Chapel Hill township, North Carolina:
- 8,638 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 534 people in nursing homes
- 120 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 71 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 55 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 55 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 49 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 25 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 17 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 14,959
- One, attached: 2,033
- Two: 1,553
- 3 or 4: 1,760
- 5 to 9: 3,037
- 10 to 19: 3,917
- 20 to 49: 1,869
- 50 or more: 2,606
- Mobile homes: 1,034
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,400
Housing units in Chapel Hill township with a mortgage: 9,232 (683 second mortgage, 1,945 home equity loan, 50 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,879
- Educational services (24%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (30%)
- Health care (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Postsecondary teachers (10%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Life and physical scientists (5%)
- Physicians and surgeons (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (3%)
- Postsecondary teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chapel Hill township:
- English (12.8%)
- German (11.1%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.9%)
- Scottish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (21%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- Korea (5%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Canada (5%)
- Japan (5%)
- India (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 26,799 (66%)
- Carpooled: 4,221 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2,407 (6%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 16 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 16 (0%)
- Railroad: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 27 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 82 (0%)
- Bicycle: 1,117 (3%)
- Walked: 4,058 (10%)
- Other means: 177 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,978 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Utility gas (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Chapel Hill township, North Carolina:
- 8,638 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 534 people in nursing homes
- 120 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 71 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 55 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 55 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 49 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 25 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 17 people in other group homes
85.1% of residents of Chapel Hill township speak English at home.
6.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
4.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
4.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (85% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 70,183- In family households: 46,624 (11,145 male householders, 4,194 female householders)
12,313 spouses, 15,557 children (14,592 natural, 619 adopted, 346 stepchildren), 458 grandchildren, 693 brothers or sisters, 267 parents, 760 other relatives, 1,237 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 23,559 (6,627 male householders (3,830 living alone)), 8,731 female householders (5,626 living alone)), 8,201 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9,510 (566 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,649 2-persons, 3,721 3-persons, 3,242 4-persons, 1,220 5-persons, 315 6-persons, 192 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 9,456 1-person, 4,416 2-persons, 915 3-persons, 423 4-persons, 95 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
10,613 married couples with children.
2,985 single-parent households (460 men, 2,525 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 922
| Here: | 12.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 288
| Here: | 8.4% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 366
| Here: | 2.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |