Meredith township, Wake County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Meredith township: | 9.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
37% of Meredith township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% 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: 4751
- Northeast: 1680
- Midwest: 1179
- South: 2180
- West: 493
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
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 Meredith township, North Carolina:
- 195 people in nursing homes
- 162 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 117 people in other group homes
- 4 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 4 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,032
- One, attached: 724
- Two: 138
- 3 or 4: 261
- 5 to 9: 904
- 10 to 19: 1,088
- 20 to 49: 517
- 50 or more: 435
Housing units in Meredith township with a mortgage: 1,447 (175 second mortgage, 183 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 709
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (15%)
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer specialists (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Meredith township:
- English (17.0%)
- German (12.1%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Scottish (4.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- Italian (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (26%)
- Canada (13%)
- India (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- Korea (5%)
- Iran (4%)
- Poland (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,901 (85%)
- Carpooled: 635 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 48 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 82 (1%)
- Other means: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 190 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (64%)
- Utility gas (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Meredith township, North Carolina:
- 195 people in nursing homes
- 162 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 117 people in other group homes
- 4 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 4 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 2 people in religious group quarters
89.5% of residents of Meredith township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other language at home (70% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,001- In family households: 6,783 (1,906 male householders, 576 female householders)
1,981 spouses, 1,850 children (1,644 natural, 104 adopted, 102 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 83 brothers or sisters, 49 parents, 134 other relatives, 141 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,218 (1,343 male householders (880 living alone)), 1,669 female householders (1,251 living alone)), 1,206 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 480 (120 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,385 2-persons, 533 3-persons, 393 4-persons, 112 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,131 1-person, 667 2-persons, 163 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 20 5-persons,
1,188 married couples with children.
330 single-parent households (76 men, 254 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 122
| Here: | 16.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 43
| Here: | 14.8% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 108
| Here: | 12.8% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |