North Knobs township, Yadkin County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (32% naturalized citizens)
| North Knobs township: | 3.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
64% of North Knobs township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% 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: 3605
- Northeast: 118
- Midwest: 111
- South: 368
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $39,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
5 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,579
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 59
- 3 or 4: 30
- 5 to 9: 47
- 10 to 19: 17
- 20 to 49: 34
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 320
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 1
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,700
Housing units in North Knobs township with a mortgage: 519 (57 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 509
- Textile mills and textile products (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (3%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in North Knobs township:
- United States or American (36.3%)
- English (12.0%)
- German (8.2%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (68%)
- Peru (8%)
- Guatemala (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- India (2%)
- Jamaica (2%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,586 (77%)
- Carpooled: 386 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 37 (2%)
- Worked at home: 34 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
5 people in homes for the mentally ill
92.2% of residents of North Knobs township speak English at home.
7.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,426- In family households: 3,767 (975 male householders, 336 female householders)
953 spouses, 1,221 children (1,095 natural, 43 adopted, 83 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 51 other relatives, 75 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 659 (203 male householders (176 living alone)), 403 female householders (388 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 683 2-persons, 296 3-persons, 217 4-persons, 73 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 564 1-person, 40 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
618 married couples with children.
276 single-parent households (50 men, 226 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 7.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 7.7% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 15.1% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |