Fair Bluff township, Columbus County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (43% naturalized citizens)
Fair Bluff township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
71% of Fair Bluff township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1447
- Northeast: 53
- Midwest: 28
- South: 541
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
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
People in group quarters in Fair Bluff township, North Carolina:
- 15 people in other group homes
- 12 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 533
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 41
- 10 to 19: 10
- 20 to 49: 10
- Mobile homes: 363
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,900
Housing units in Fair Bluff township with a mortgage: 97 (11 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 208
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- U. S. Postal service (6%)
- Educational services (41%)
- U. S. Postal service (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Computer specialists (9%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other transportation workers (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (20%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (16%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Business operations specialists (9%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Religious workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fair Bluff township:
- United States or American (23.0%)
- English (7.7%)
- German (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Irish (2.0%)
- French (except Basque) (0.7%)
- European (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- Japan (21%)
- Korea (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 531 (77%)
- Carpooled: 133 (19%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 9 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Fair Bluff township, North Carolina:
- 15 people in other group homes
- 12 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
97.5% of residents of Fair Bluff township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,059- In family households: 1,759 (379 male householders, 179 female householders)
347 spouses, 630 children (614 natural, 3 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 97 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 25 other relatives, 68 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 300 (132 male householders (125 living alone)), 137 female householders (130 living alone)), 31 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 32 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 214 2-persons, 171 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 255 1-person, 8 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 1 6-persons,
232 married couples with children.
144 single-parent households (18 men, 126 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
Here: | 5.7% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 1.5% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |