Cove Creek township, Watauga County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Cove Creek township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Cove Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2040
- Northeast: 125
- Midwest: 106
- South: 529
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $43,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
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: 958
- Two: 42
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 381
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,300
Housing units in Cove Creek township with a mortgage: 229 (18 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 234
- Construction (27%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cove Creek township:
- United States or American (28.2%)
- German (15.7%)
- English (14.9%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Scottish (3.3%)
- French Canadian (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Korea (21%)
- Mexico (21%)
- Guatemala (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,022 (76%)
- Carpooled: 236 (18%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 58 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (67%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
97.8% of residents of Cove Creek township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,864- In family households: 2,482 (669 male householders, 194 female householders)
700 spouses, 829 children (817 natural, 7 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 16 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 382 (163 male householders (140 living alone)), 173 female householders (156 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 425 2-persons, 255 3-persons, 110 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 18 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 296 1-person, 40 2-persons,
496 married couples with children.
138 single-parent households (56 men, 82 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 28
Here: | 8.9% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 3.7% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |