Rockfish township, Duplin County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (0% naturalized citizens)
Rockfish township: | 3.8% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Rockfish township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 86% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in North Carolina.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1214
- Northeast: 42
- Midwest: 5
- South: 31
- West: 7
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 366
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 208
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,800
Housing units in Rockfish township with a mortgage: 131 (11 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 109
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (35%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food (10%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (15%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Customer service representatives (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Accountants and auditors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockfish township:
- United States or American (22.9%)
- English (10.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
- Irish (2.9%)
- French Canadian (1.0%)
- Scottish (0.8%)
- German (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Honduras (58%)
- Mexico (42%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 525 (84%)
- Carpooled: 51 (8%)
- Walked: 24 (4%)
- Worked at home: 28 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (50%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
94.1% of residents of Rockfish township speak English at home.
5.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (12% speak English very well, 68% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,356- In family households: 1,207 (292 male householders, 58 female householders)
291 spouses, 368 children (323 natural, 14 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 73 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 49 other relatives, 56 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 149 (65 male householders (58 living alone)), 67 female householders (67 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 106 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 111 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 7 3-persons,
249 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (20 men, 57 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 6.1% |
North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 33
Here: | 27.7% |
North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 21.7% |
North Carolina: | 20.2% |