Stewarts Creek township, Surry County, North Carolina (NC) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Stewarts Creek township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Stewarts Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% 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: 4813
- Northeast: 170
- Midwest: 169
- South: 1211
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,007
- One, attached: 19
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 726
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Stewarts Creek township with a mortgage: 817 (109 second mortgage, 158 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 534
- Construction (21%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Apparel (21%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Stewarts Creek township:
- United States or American (44.3%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- German (8.5%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (58%)
- Laos (18%)
- Germany (10%)
- Netherlands (4%)
- Nicaragua (4%)
- Honduras (3%)
- Philippines (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,706 (82%)
- Carpooled: 449 (14%)
- Walked: 33 (1%)
- Other means: 28 (1%)
- Worked at home: 73 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Wood (8%)
- No fuel used (1%)
94.0% of residents of Stewarts Creek township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,597- In family households: 5,929 (1,633 male householders, 342 female householders)
1,611 spouses, 1,977 children (1,839 natural, 35 adopted, 103 stepchildren), 119 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 44 parents, 61 other relatives, 72 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 668 (233 male householders (178 living alone)), 359 female householders (345 living alone)), 76 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 891 2-persons, 468 3-persons, 420 4-persons, 140 5-persons, 41 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 523 1-person, 64 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
1,293 married couples with children.
317 single-parent households (60 men, 257 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 1.6% |
| North Carolina: | 8.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 28
| Here: | 8.6% |
| North Carolina: | 6.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
| Here: | 17.0% |
| North Carolina: | 20.2% |