Northwest township, Brunswick County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (12% naturalized citizens)
| Northwest township: | 5.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Northwest township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6311
- Northeast: 762
- Midwest: 349
- South: 1213
- West: 161
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,606
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 2,262
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,800
Housing units in Northwest township with a mortgage: 675 (48 second mortgage, 69 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 503
- Construction (29%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Northwest township:
- United States or American (19.7%)
- English (6.8%)
- Irish (5.1%)
- German (5.0%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Italian (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (85%)
- Canada (3%)
- Germany (2%)
- Philippines (2%)
- Ethiopia (1%)
- Australia (1%)
- Egypt (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,096 (75%)
- Carpooled: 831 (20%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (0%)
- Other means: 35 (1%)
- Worked at home: 114 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (75%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
90.8% of residents of Northwest township speak English at home.
8.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 27% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (49% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (60% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,369- In family households: 8,133 (1,799 male householders, 666 female householders)
1,768 spouses, 2,934 children (2,625 natural, 64 adopted, 245 stepchildren), 250 grandchildren, 110 brothers or sisters, 80 parents, 219 other relatives, 307 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,236 (527 male householders (391 living alone)), 439 female householders (386 living alone)), 270 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 907 2-persons, 599 3-persons, 521 4-persons, 251 5-persons, 125 6-persons, 62 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 777 1-person, 158 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 12 4-persons, 6 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
1,373 married couples with children.
829 single-parent households (234 men, 595 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 91
| Here: | 7.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 4.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 47
| Here: | 20.4% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |