Avery Creek township, Buncombe County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Avery Creek township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Avery Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3593
- Northeast: 306
- Midwest: 351
- South: 1080
- West: 72
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,679
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 30
- Mobile homes: 693
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,200
Housing units in Avery Creek township with a mortgage: 885 (71 second mortgage, 198 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 330
- Construction (16%)
- Health care (8%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Carpenters (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Avery Creek township:
- United States or American (26.6%)
- English (17.2%)
- German (13.0%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.9%)
- Scottish (5.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (30%)
- Mexico (24%)
- Canada (11%)
- Germany (10%)
- Netherlands (9%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (8%)
- Japan (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,722 (91%)
- Carpooled: 207 (7%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 68 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (38%)
- Utility gas (33%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (4%)
98.0% of residents of Avery Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,548- In family households: 4,677 (1,298 male householders, 272 female householders)
1,315 spouses, 1,479 children (1,333 natural, 68 adopted, 78 stepchildren), 96 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 48 other relatives, 119 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 871 (221 male householders (195 living alone)), 516 female householders (423 living alone)), 134 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 739 2-persons, 379 3-persons, 321 4-persons, 81 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 618 1-person, 106 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
904 married couples with children.
216 single-parent households (55 men, 161 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 70
| Here: | 12.0% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 44
| Here: | 14.2% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 6.9% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |