Cowanshannock township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Cowanshannock township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Cowanshannock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2756
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 66
- South: 64
- West: 58
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 967
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 175
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,100
Housing units in Cowanshannock township with a mortgage: 303 (33 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 322
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cowanshannock township:
- German (40.1%)
- United States or American (11.1%)
- English (10.2%)
- Italian (8.3%)
- Irish (5.7%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Slovak (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (65%)
- Italy (20%)
- Portugal (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 941 (83%)
- Carpooled: 112 (10%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 23 (2%)
- Worked at home: 37 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.7% of residents of Cowanshannock township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 42% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,976- In family households: 2,638 (721 male householders, 105 female householders)
699 spouses, 986 children (921 natural, 9 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 14 other relatives, 67 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 338 (145 male householders (128 living alone)), 151 female householders (134 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 29 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 353 2-persons, 153 3-persons, 194 4-persons, 81 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 262 1-person, 27 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
601 married couples with children.
161 single-parent households (53 men, 108 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 2.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 1.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 8.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |