Saluda township, Polk County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Saluda township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
72% of Saluda township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 891
- Northeast: 151
- Midwest: 155
- South: 508
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
78 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 942
- One, attached: 33
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 7
- Mobile homes: 133
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,900
Housing units in Saluda township with a mortgage: 263 (38 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 207
- Construction (16%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- U. S. Postal service (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Saluda township:
- English (21.1%)
- United States or American (19.5%)
- Irish (15.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (9.3%)
- German (7.7%)
- Scottish (4.8%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (35%)
- Canada (26%)
- Other Western Europe (18%)
- Hong Kong (6%)
- South Africa (6%)
- Other Central America (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 641 (84%)
- Carpooled: 85 (11%)
- Walked: 15 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 16 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Wood (13%)
- Utility gas (2%)
78 people in nursing homes
93.5% of residents of Saluda township speak English at home.
5.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (99% speak English very well, 1% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,707- In family households: 1,479 (414 male householders, 90 female householders)
403 spouses, 469 children (431 natural, 12 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 22 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 228 (67 male householders (54 living alone)), 136 female householders (125 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 75 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 271 2-persons, 110 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 179 1-person, 24 2-persons,
277 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (21 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 8.1% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.1% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 10.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |