Shooting Creek township, Clay County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Shooting Creek township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
61% of Shooting Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 28% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 618
- Northeast: 75
- Midwest: 101
- South: 576
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 622
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 184
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,900
Housing units in Shooting Creek township with a mortgage: 140 (6 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 149
- Construction (39%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Health care (25%)
- Apparel (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Carpenters (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shooting Creek township:
- United States or American (51.6%)
- English (12.9%)
- German (9.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
- Irish (4.0%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 500 (83%)
- Carpooled: 93 (16%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (1%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.0% of residents of Shooting Creek township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,383- In family households: 1,206 (401 male householders, 65 female householders)
435 spouses, 278 children (258 natural, 9 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 177 (78 male householders (78 living alone)), 92 female householders (86 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 278 2-persons, 123 3-persons, 35 4-persons, 30 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 164 1-person, 6 2-persons,
167 married couples with children.
37 single-parent households (13 men, 24 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% |