Ahoskie, North Carolina Ahoskie, North Carolina Location of Ahoskie, North Carolina Location of Ahoskie, North Carolina State North Carolina Ahoskie Listeni/ h ski/ is a town in Hertford County, North Carolina.
Ahoskie is positioned in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.
The origin of the word Ahoskie, which was originally spelled "Ahotsky," came from the Wyanoke Indians who entered the Hertford County region at the beginning of European settlement. The Ahoskie Historic District, Ahoskie Downtown Historic District, Ahoskie School, East End Historic District, Roberts H.
Jernigan House, King-Casper-Ward-Bazemore House, William Mitchell House, Mulberry Grove, and James Newsome House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2009 a movie was filmed in Ahoskie called Mississippi damned which made to Netflix early 2015 Ahoskie is positioned at 36 17 11 N 76 59 11 W (36.286439, -76.986436). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 4.31 square miles.
As of the census of 2010, there were 5,039 citizens , 2,062 homeholds, and 1,263 families residing in the town.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 66.6% African American, 28.5% White, 1.50% Native American, 1.3% Asian, and 1.1% from two or more competitions.
The populace ages were distributed with 28.1% under the age of 20, 5.7% from 20 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $28,438, and the median income for a family was $37,833.
About 19.8% of families and 26.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 36.8% of those under age 18 and 22.4% of those age 65 or over.
Roanoke-Chowan Community College is positioned just outside Ahoskie in Union.
Also, in the late 90's, the town of Ahoskie donated a former elementary school to the Shaw University to establish one its C.A.P.E.
In 2004-2005, a full-length autonomous film was shot on locale in Ahoskie and the encircling counties of Bertie and Gates.
The 2009 movie Mississippi Damned was filmed, in part, in Ahoskie.
Talk Like A Tarheel, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014".
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