Olive Hill township, Person County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Olive Hill township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Olive Hill township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2333
- Northeast: 128
- Midwest: 84
- South: 303
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 804
- One, attached: 15
- Mobile homes: 301
Median worth of mobile homes: $69,800
Housing units in Olive Hill township with a mortgage: 338 (46 second mortgage, 54 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 205
- Construction (24%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Olive Hill township:
- United States or American (38.0%)
- English (19.1%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.2%)
- German (4.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
- African (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,122 (87%)
- Carpooled: 133 (10%)
- Other means: 23 (2%)
- Worked at home: 19 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
6 people in other group homes
96.9% of residents of Olive Hill township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,868- In family households: 2,692 (661 male householders, 170 female householders)
704 spouses, 854 children (792 natural, 16 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 192 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 62 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 176 (91 male householders (80 living alone)), 65 female householders (58 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 353 2-persons, 154 3-persons, 196 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 138 1-person, 18 2-persons,
449 married couples with children.
88 single-parent households (19 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 6.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |