Jamestown township, Guilford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Jamestown township: | 4.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
53% of Jamestown 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, 44% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7839
- Northeast: 1047
- Midwest: 816
- South: 2215
- West: 272
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
4 people in other types of correctional institutions
2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,886
- One, attached: 135
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 52
- 5 to 9: 98
- 10 to 19: 5
- 50 or more: 34
- Mobile homes: 172
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,200
Housing units in Jamestown township with a mortgage: 2,874 (240 second mortgage, 659 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,171
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (9%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jamestown township:
- United States or American (23.7%)
- English (12.4%)
- German (10.6%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (17%)
- Philippines (13%)
- Vietnam (9%)
- Other Western Europe (8%)
- Hong Kong (6%)
- Germany (5%)
- Canada (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,976 (87%)
- Carpooled: 466 (7%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 11 (0%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 22 (0%)
- Walked: 67 (1%)
- Other means: 28 (0%)
- Worked at home: 265 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (1%)
4 people in other types of correctional institutions
2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
93.2% of residents of Jamestown township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (31% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,793- In family households: 11,440 (3,329 male householders, 635 female householders)
3,466 spouses, 3,498 children (3,222 natural, 150 adopted, 126 stepchildren), 151 grandchildren, 81 brothers or sisters, 100 parents, 97 other relatives, 83 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,353 (485 male householders (414 living alone)), 653 female householders (544 living alone)), 215 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,970 2-persons, 850 3-persons, 787 4-persons, 263 5-persons, 67 6-persons, 27 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 958 1-person, 143 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
2,437 married couples with children.
409 single-parent households (107 men, 302 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 198
| Here: | 13.9% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 105
| Here: | 17.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 75
| Here: | 18.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |