Limestone township, Buncombe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (39% naturalized citizens)
| Limestone township: | 3.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
52% of Limestone township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7175
- Northeast: 1359
- Midwest: 1202
- South: 3125
- West: 534
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $181,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
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
101 people in nursing homes
83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,826
- One, attached: 203
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 185
- 5 to 9: 384
- 10 to 19: 313
- 20 to 49: 186
- 50 or more: 34
- Mobile homes: 958
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,400
Housing units in Limestone township with a mortgage: 2,227 (223 second mortgage, 564 home equity loan, 33 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 823
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Limestone township:
- United States or American (16.2%)
- English (15.2%)
- German (13.4%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (8.0%)
- Scottish (4.3%)
- Italian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Greece (15%)
- Korea (13%)
- Mexico (10%)
- Canada (9%)
- Germany (7%)
- Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,480 (86%)
- Carpooled: 686 (9%)
- Taxi: 26 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (0%)
- Other means: 43 (1%)
- Worked at home: 269 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Utility gas (32%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
101 people in nursing homes
83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.5% of residents of Limestone township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 43% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (83% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 10% 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: 13,776- In family households: 11,843 (3,170 male householders, 836 female householders)
3,339 spouses, 4,007 children (3,724 natural, 117 adopted, 166 stepchildren), 99 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 78 parents, 74 other relatives, 202 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,933 (806 male householders (676 living alone)), 832 female householders (726 living alone)), 295 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 246 (99 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,815 2-persons, 975 3-persons, 819 4-persons, 304 5-persons, 78 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,402 1-person, 201 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 13 5-persons,
2,527 married couples with children.
775 single-parent households (136 men, 639 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 111
| Here: | 6.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 30
| Here: | 4.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 4.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |