Pleasant Grove township, Johnston County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Grove township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
45% of Pleasant Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 21% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5652
- Northeast: 883
- Midwest: 607
- South: 1193
- West: 230
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $113,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,502
- One, attached: 32
- Two: 9
- Mobile homes: 863
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,300
Housing units in Pleasant Grove township with a mortgage: 1,619 (182 second mortgage, 226 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 271
- Construction (23%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Public administration (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Grove township:
- United States or American (27.2%)
- English (14.5%)
- German (8.9%)
- Irish (6.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Scottish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (66%)
- Laos (9%)
- Iran (9%)
- Peru (5%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Costa Rica (3%)
- El Salvador (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,629 (78%)
- Carpooled: 817 (18%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 156 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (74%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
92.9% of residents of Pleasant Grove township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 45% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,962- In family households: 8,026 (2,258 male householders, 333 female householders)
2,215 spouses, 2,788 children (2,446 natural, 73 adopted, 269 stepchildren), 125 grandchildren, 40 brothers or sisters, 79 parents, 73 other relatives, 115 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 936 (407 male householders (305 living alone)), 312 female householders (264 living alone)), 217 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 953 2-persons, 657 3-persons, 647 4-persons, 245 5-persons, 65 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 569 1-person, 126 2-persons, 24 3-persons,
2,076 married couples with children.
355 single-parent households (73 men, 282 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 60
| Here: | 5.1% |
| 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: 70
| Here: | 29.7% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |