Marks Creek township, Richmond County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Marks Creek township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Marks Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10857
- Northeast: 538
- Midwest: 266
- South: 1909
- West: 111
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Marks Creek township, North Carolina:
- 165 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in state prisons
- 15 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,865
- One, attached: 129
- Two: 222
- 3 or 4: 122
- 5 to 9: 38
- 10 to 19: 27
- 20 to 49: 29
- Mobile homes: 1,524
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,700
Housing units in Marks Creek township with a mortgage: 1,424 (129 second mortgage, 211 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,167
- Construction (13%)
- Textile mills and textile products (10%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- 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 (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marks Creek township:
- United States or American (18.6%)
- English (7.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.1%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- Scottish (3.6%)
- German (2.4%)
- Italian (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- India (10%)
- Hungary (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,428 (79%)
- Carpooled: 876 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Railroad: 12 (0%)
- Taxi: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 72 (1%)
- Other means: 93 (2%)
- Worked at home: 94 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Marks Creek township, North Carolina:
- 165 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in state prisons
- 15 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
97.2% of residents of Marks Creek township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,585- In family households: 11,891 (2,546 male householders, 1,301 female householders)
2,645 spouses, 4,214 children (3,761 natural, 145 adopted, 308 stepchildren), 475 grandchildren, 88 brothers or sisters, 58 parents, 256 other relatives, 308 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,694 (696 male householders (580 living alone)), 825 female householders (783 living alone)), 173 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 208 (182 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,641 2-persons, 899 3-persons, 802 4-persons, 373 5-persons, 88 6-persons, 44 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,363 1-person, 144 2-persons, 14 4-persons,
1,898 married couples with children.
1,205 single-parent households (194 men, 1,011 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 29
| Here: | 1.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 1.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 45
| Here: | 9.6% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |