Fentress township, Guilford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (47% naturalized citizens)
Fentress township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Fentress township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7243
- Northeast: 631
- Midwest: 510
- South: 1671
- West: 177
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $132,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Fentress township, North Carolina:
- 38 people in nursing homes
- 10 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,639
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 19
- 5 to 9: 13
- Mobile homes: 632
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,700
Housing units in Fentress township with a mortgage: 1,790 (224 second mortgage, 333 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 987
- Construction (15%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fentress township:
- United States or American (23.2%)
- English (14.9%)
- German (8.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.2%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- Scottish (2.9%)
- Polish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (18%)
- Venezuela (13%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Canada (11%)
- Korea (7%)
- Russia (5%)
- Iran (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,658 (86%)
- Carpooled: 602 (11%)
- Walked: 23 (0%)
- Worked at home: 134 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Fentress township, North Carolina:
- 38 people in nursing homes
- 10 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
97.5% of residents of Fentress township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English well, 38% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,435- In family households: 9,312 (2,581 male householders, 605 female householders)
2,750 spouses, 2,961 children (2,691 natural, 124 adopted, 146 stepchildren), 156 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 89 other relatives, 97 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,123 (468 male householders (374 living alone)), 480 female householders (450 living alone)), 175 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 52 (36 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,507 2-persons, 831 3-persons, 559 4-persons, 210 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 824 1-person, 96 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 5 5-persons,
1,850 married couples with children.
368 single-parent households (135 men, 233 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 150
Here: | 12.3% |
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: 44
Here: | 14.2% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |