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013 lious tng Stock and Household S t&e The housing stock of Little River Township in 1980 consisted of 576 units. Five years later that number had increased by one-third, to an estimated 763 homes. Manufactured housing accounted for almost half the increase. Overall , though, site built homes represent three-quarters of +-he Township' s total housing stock. Ownership is the predominant form of tenure for Township residents. Of all occupied homes in the Township between 85-90% are owner occupied, Little River Township has followed the national and state trend of gradually decreasing household sizes. The average household in the Township had 3 .30 persons in 1970. By 1980, though, that figure had dropped to 2.59 persons per household. Circulatign A modified version of the North Carolina Highway Functional Classification system is used to describe the county 's road network. This system describes parts of the network based on mobility and access factors. The most important roads, Interstates and arterial highways, provide the shortest travel time and best service to and from . important activity centers. Roads of lesser importance, collector roads, do not provide as good a service function, but do provide large areas with access to major roads. Local roads function in the most limited service capacity, but in aggregate serve to provide large land areas with access to the collector and arterial systems . The two major roads in Little River Township are arterial highways; NC57, extending northeasterly from Hillsborough to Roxboro; and NC157 , which runs in a southeasterly direction toward the City of Durham. These two routes form an "X" pattern which intersects in the center of the Township in the community of Caldwell . The collector Guess Road, the southern extension of NC157 , serves as the southeastern leg of the pattern. Other important roads in the Township include the collectors New Sharon Church Road ( SR1538) , Schley Road ( SR1548) , and Little River Church Road ( SR1543) . All other roads serve primarily local traffic. The objective of a transportation facility such as a_ street or highway is to accomodate a specific number of vehic es while rovidin the driver with a s ecific level of service. A level of service 'C' is frequently used as an appropriate criterion for highway and street design purposes and is defined by the North Carolina Department of, Transportation as a zone of stable flow with speed and maneuverability more closely controlled by higher volumes. Levels of service range from 'A, ' which is a condition o free flow with low volume and high speed, to the forced flow operation at low speeds that defines level of service 'F . '