Scotch Irish township, Rowan County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Scotch Irish township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Scotch Irish township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% 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: 1434
- Northeast: 56
- Midwest: 67
- South: 134
- West: 9
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 498
- Mobile homes: 184
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,900
Housing units in Scotch Irish township with a mortgage: 140 (16 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
- Transportation equipment (24%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scotch Irish township:
- United States or American (44.7%)
- German (10.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (9.3%)
- English (8.3%)
- European (3.7%)
- Polish (2.6%)
- Italian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 684 (82%)
- Carpooled: 64 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 14 (2%)
- Walked: 37 (4%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 22 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (8%)
96.5% of residents of Scotch Irish township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (25% speak English very well, 75% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,734- In family households: 1,557 (393 male householders, 95 female householders)
367 spouses, 548 children (534 natural, 0 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 19 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 177 (62 male householders (51 living alone)), 103 female householders (103 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 146 2-persons, 134 3-persons, 167 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 154 1-person, 11 2-persons,
386 married couples with children.
65 single-parent households (15 men, 50 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
| Here: | 19.3% |
| 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: 10
| Here: | 15.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |