Franklin township, Rowan County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8248
- Northeast: 957
- Midwest: 509
- South: 1880
- West: 194
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
78 people in nursing homes
74 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,620
- One, attached: 162
- Two: 75
- 3 or 4: 48
- 5 to 9: 433
- 10 to 19: 195
- 20 to 49: 47
- 50 or more: 120
- Mobile homes: 778
Median worth of mobile homes: $58,700
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 1,810 (123 second mortgage, 484 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,131
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- United States or American (22.2%)
- German (15.2%)
- English (9.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.0%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Dutch (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (27%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Laos (10%)
- Jamaica (8%)
- Germany (7%)
- Mexico (7%)
- Other Western Africa (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,956 (87%)
- Carpooled: 568 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 20 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 112 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Utility gas (37%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
78 people in nursing homes
74 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.6% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (23% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 37% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,174- In family households: 10,386 (2,711 male householders, 808 female householders)
2,880 spouses, 3,239 children (2,929 natural, 83 adopted, 227 stepchildren), 184 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 185 parents, 217 other relatives, 92 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,788 (729 male householders (637 living alone)), 840 female householders (727 living alone)), 219 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 153 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,698 2-persons, 836 3-persons, 630 4-persons, 252 5-persons, 81 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,364 1-person, 182 2-persons, 23 3-persons,
1,878 married couples with children.
712 single-parent households (176 men, 536 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 212
| Here: | 16.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 68
| Here: | 10.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 179
| Here: | 34.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |