Fishing Creek township, Granville County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Fishing Creek township: | 8.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of Fishing Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6279
- Northeast: 221
- Midwest: 147
- South: 584
- West: 41
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Fishing Creek township, North Carolina:
- 54 people in nursing homes
- 36 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,031
- One, attached: 68
- Two: 119
- 3 or 4: 182
- 5 to 9: 53
- 20 to 49: 58
- 50 or more: 27
- Mobile homes: 557
Median worth of mobile homes: $49,800
Housing units in Fishing Creek township with a mortgage: 782 (77 second mortgage, 124 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 466
- Construction (11%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Health care (25%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fishing Creek township:
- United States or American (12.6%)
- English (6.8%)
- German (3.0%)
- Irish (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.0%)
- Scottish (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (86%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Afghanistan (2%)
- Germany (2%)
- Turkey (1%)
- Other Western Africa (1%)
- Other Northern Africa (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,310 (72%)
- Carpooled: 707 (22%)
- Walked: 83 (3%)
- Other means: 56 (2%)
- Worked at home: 38 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (38%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (4%)
People in group quarters in Fishing Creek township, North Carolina:
- 54 people in nursing homes
- 36 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
89.6% of residents of Fishing Creek township speak English at home.
8.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (14% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 36% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,839- In family households: 7,029 (1,270 male householders, 898 female householders)
1,356 spouses, 2,488 children (2,384 natural, 8 adopted, 96 stepchildren), 352 grandchildren, 119 brothers or sisters, 56 parents, 267 other relatives, 223 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 810 (335 male householders (316 living alone)), 414 female householders (387 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 127 (96 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 859 2-persons, 522 3-persons, 412 4-persons, 197 5-persons, 98 6-persons, 80 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 703 1-person, 45 2-persons, 1 5-persons,
972 married couples with children.
701 single-parent households (78 men, 623 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 1.4% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 40
| Here: | 8.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 10.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |