Old Fort township, McDowell County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (44% naturalized citizens)
Old Fort township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
62% of Old Fort township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3117
- Northeast: 177
- Midwest: 123
- South: 443
- West: 72
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,125
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 44
- 3 or 4: 42
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 659
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,300
Housing units in Old Fort township with a mortgage: 373 (44 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 368
- Construction (17%)
- Textile mills and textile products (13%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (16%)
- Health care (14%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Old Fort township:
- United States or American (36.2%)
- English (13.1%)
- German (8.3%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Scottish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Costa Rica (35%)
- Mexico (25%)
- Yugoslavia (9%)
- Germany (7%)
- India (5%)
- Japan (4%)
- Malaysia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,467 (78%)
- Carpooled: 347 (18%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (1%)
- Other means: 25 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.0% of residents of Old Fort township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,017- In family households: 3,444 (964 male householders, 240 female householders)
886 spouses, 1,021 children (910 natural, 31 adopted, 80 stepchildren), 66 grandchildren, 68 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 72 other relatives, 106 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 573 (227 male householders (192 living alone)), 256 female householders (223 living alone)), 90 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 568 2-persons, 306 3-persons, 243 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 415 1-person, 55 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
585 married couples with children.
230 single-parent households (78 men, 152 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
Here: | 2.3% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
Here: | 0.5% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 11.0% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |