Peters Creek township, Stokes County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (11% naturalized citizens)
| Peters Creek township: | 3.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
72% of Peters Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 8% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1322
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 74
- South: 496
- West: 50
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 654
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 319
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Peters Creek township with a mortgage: 124 (12 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 170
- Construction (19%)
- Wood products (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Peters Creek township:
- United States or American (43.7%)
- English (22.1%)
- German (7.4%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
- Armenian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (89%)
- Germany (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 671 (74%)
- Carpooled: 103 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 99 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (17%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
93.1% of residents of Peters Creek township speak English at home.
6.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,051- In family households: 1,842 (532 male householders, 105 female householders)
571 spouses, 578 children (525 natural, 0 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 5 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 209 (72 male householders (72 living alone)), 130 female householders (127 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 303 2-persons, 172 3-persons, 110 4-persons, 52 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 199 1-person, 3 2-persons,
348 married couples with children.
93 single-parent households (37 men, 56 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |