Smithville township, Brunswick County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Smithville township: | 2.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
49% of Smithville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6608
- Northeast: 1587
- Midwest: 910
- South: 2350
- West: 254
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $115,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Smithville township, North Carolina:
- 73 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in military barracks, etc.
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,004
- One, attached: 204
- Two: 196
- 3 or 4: 244
- 5 to 9: 175
- 10 to 19: 141
- 20 to 49: 74
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 1,517
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 43
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,300
Housing units in Smithville township with a mortgage: 2,244 (161 second mortgage, 329 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,346
- Construction (23%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Smithville township:
- United States or American (20.0%)
- English (18.4%)
- German (11.2%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- Scottish (3.8%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (24%)
- Germany (23%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Netherlands (8%)
- Poland (5%)
- Other South Central Asia (4%)
- El Salvador (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,235 (77%)
- Carpooled: 623 (11%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 2 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 88 (2%)
- Taxi: 16 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 28 (1%)
- Bicycle: 52 (1%)
- Walked: 111 (2%)
- Other means: 105 (2%)
- Worked at home: 250 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (75%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Smithville township, North Carolina:
- 73 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in military barracks, etc.
96.7% of residents of Smithville township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (96% speak English very well, 4% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,934- In family households: 9,748 (2,923 male householders, 742 female householders)
3,020 spouses, 2,449 children (2,221 natural, 59 adopted, 169 stepchildren), 235 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 56 parents, 146 other relatives, 139 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,186 (773 male householders (589 living alone)), 1,043 female householders (912 living alone)), 370 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 86 (73 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,333 2-persons, 713 3-persons, 395 4-persons, 158 5-persons, 48 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,501 1-person, 251 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
1,304 married couples with children.
503 single-parent households (106 men, 397 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 164
| Here: | 17.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 72
| Here: | 12.9% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 3.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |