Chimney Rock township, Rutherford County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Chimney Rock township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
56% of Chimney Rock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 19% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1044
- Northeast: 324
- Midwest: 333
- South: 447
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,931
- One, attached: 246
- Two: 100
- 3 or 4: 95
- 5 to 9: 227
- Mobile homes: 202
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,000
Housing units in Chimney Rock township with a mortgage: 296 (25 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 321
- Construction (21%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Health care (10%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chimney Rock township:
- English (21.6%)
- German (18.5%)
- United States or American (11.1%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.3%)
- Scottish (3.6%)
- Italian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Philippines (23%)
- Canada (23%)
- Panama (8%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Netherlands (4%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 705 (75%)
- Carpooled: 163 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 30 (3%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 32 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (52%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Solar energy (1%)
97.1% of residents of Chimney Rock township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,271- In family households: 1,905 (543 male householders, 182 female householders)
633 spouses, 465 children (415 natural, 25 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 31 parents, 9 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 366 (146 male householders (125 living alone)), 151 female householders (109 living alone)), 69 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 487 2-persons, 123 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 234 1-person, 52 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
258 married couples with children.
65 single-parent households (23 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 10.8% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.5% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 28.3% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |