Coolspring township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (49% naturalized citizens)
Coolspring township: | 2.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
66% of Coolspring township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1916
- Northeast: 67
- Midwest: 137
- South: 73
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
133 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
21 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 733
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 189
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,500
Housing units in Coolspring township with a mortgage: 272 (26 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 221
- Construction (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Coolspring township:
- German (34.9%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- English (9.4%)
- Italian (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (8.0%)
- United States or American (5.7%)
- Polish (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (27%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Colombia (15%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (13%)
- Belarus (13%)
- Yugoslavia (11%)
- Thailand (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 859 (86%)
- Carpooled: 110 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 30 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Wood (1%)
133 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
21 people in unknown juvenile institutions
96.1% of residents of Coolspring township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,134- In family households: 1,915 (531 male householders, 103 female householders)
546 spouses, 672 children (607 natural, 14 adopted, 51 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 20 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 219 (117 male householders (92 living alone)), 74 female householders (66 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 153 (26 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 301 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 142 4-persons, 51 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 158 1-person, 33 2-persons,
411 married couples with children.
85 single-parent households (19 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 7.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
Here: | 13.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 20
Here: | 33.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |