Mountain Creek township, Catawba County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (65% naturalized citizens)
Mountain Creek township: | 1.5% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
55% of Mountain Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4346
- Northeast: 608
- Midwest: 530
- South: 1067
- West: 104
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $28,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
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: 2,581
- Two: 48
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 17
- 20 to 49: 26
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 930
Median worth of mobile homes: $70,800
Housing units in Mountain Creek township with a mortgage: 1,161 (176 second mortgage, 183 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 510
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mountain Creek township:
- United States or American (36.9%)
- German (17.0%)
- English (8.2%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.5%)
- Polish (4.1%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Costa Rica (17%)
- Germany (16%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Spain (10%)
- Austria (10%)
- Other Caribbean (10%)
- Thailand (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,013 (84%)
- Carpooled: 407 (11%)
- Walked: 43 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (0%)
- Worked at home: 116 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (81%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98.3% of residents of Mountain Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,795- In family households: 5,915 (1,829 male householders, 285 female householders)
1,827 spouses, 1,719 children (1,473 natural, 61 adopted, 185 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 103 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 880 (389 male householders (270 living alone)), 338 female householders (327 living alone)), 153 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,084 2-persons, 512 3-persons, 388 4-persons, 110 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 597 1-person, 125 2-persons, 5 4-persons,
1,126 married couples with children.
254 single-parent households (93 men, 161 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
Here: | 5.2% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
Here: | 12.9% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |