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1-.1 7 <br /> Household Size and Housing Stock <br /> The housing stock of Bingham Township in 1980 consisted <br /> of 1,660 units. Seven years later that number had increased <br /> almost 40% to an estimated 2,309 units. Manufactured housing <br /> accounted for 49% of the increase and multi-family housing, <br /> mostly duplexes, accounted for another 3%. <br /> Overall, site built single family housing makes up 63% <br /> of the Township's housing stock, while mobile homes make up <br /> most of the rest. Multifamily units account for less than 1% <br /> of the housing units Township-wide; most of these are <br /> duplexes. <br /> Ownership is the primary form of tenure in the Township. <br /> Slightly more than three-quarters of the homes in Bingham <br /> Township are owner occupied. <br /> Bingham Township has followed the state and national <br /> trend of gradually declining household sizes. The average <br /> Bingham Township household had 3. 10 persons in 1970, a figure <br /> that dropped to 2.38 in 1980. Bingham Township has the <br /> 411 smallest average household size of any township in Orange <br /> County. <br /> Circulation <br /> A modified version of the North Carolina Highway <br /> Functional Classification System has been used to describe <br /> the road network in Orange County. This system describes <br /> segments of the road network based on mobility and access <br /> factors. The most important roads, Interstate and arterial <br /> highways, provide the best service and shortest travel time <br /> to and from important activity centers. Roads of lesser <br /> importance, collector roads, do not provide as good a service <br /> function, but provide an area with access to the major roads. <br /> The least important roads, local roads, function in the most <br /> limited service capacity, but in the aggregate provides large <br /> land areas with access to more important roads and highways. <br /> The major arterial in Binghan Township's road network is <br /> NC54, which provides the primary east-west connection between <br /> the urban areas of Chapel Hill/Carrboro and Burlington. Two <br /> other important east-west routes are the arterial road Old <br /> Greensboro Road (SR1005) and the collector road Dairyland <br /> Road (SR1177) . <br /> 3. 11-3 <br />