Leesville township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Leesville township: | 9.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
41% of Leesville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 24% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9579
- Northeast: 7110
- Midwest: 3466
- South: 5511
- West: 1052
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $186,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,184
- One, attached: 549
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 366
- 5 to 9: 874
- 10 to 19: 1,329
- 20 to 49: 705
- 50 or more: 287
- Mobile homes: 84
Median worth of mobile homes: $84,200
Housing units in Leesville township with a mortgage: 7,093 (795 second mortgage, 1,372 home equity loan, 46 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 617
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (21%)
- Computer and electronic products (11%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Computer specialists (15%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Leesville township:
- English (14.7%)
- German (13.4%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- United States or American (8.1%)
- Italian (7.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
- Polish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (17%)
- India (12%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Mexico (7%)
- Korea (5%)
- Brazil (3%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 15,314 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,073 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 21 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 76 (0%)
- Other means: 140 (1%)
- Worked at home: 891 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Electricity (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
90.0% of residents of Leesville township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
4.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (70% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (74% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 29,976- In family households: 25,225 (6,891 male householders, 1,097 female householders)
7,220 spouses, 9,344 children (8,726 natural, 281 adopted, 337 stepchildren), 55 grandchildren, 189 brothers or sisters, 111 parents, 175 other relatives, 143 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,751 (1,796 male householders (1,427 living alone)), 1,955 female householders (1,402 living alone)), 1,000 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 3,000 2-persons, 1,972 3-persons, 2,078 4-persons, 710 5-persons, 207 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,829 1-person, 822 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 15 4-persons,
7,116 married couples with children.
914 single-parent households (177 men, 737 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 372
| Here: | 10.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 153
| Here: | 8.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 304
| Here: | 25.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |