Foster township, McKean County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (65% naturalized citizens)
Foster township: | 2.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Foster township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 15% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3467
- Northeast: 676
- Midwest: 60
- South: 163
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
34 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,699
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 17
- 20 to 49: 23
- Mobile homes: 173
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,000
Housing units in Foster township with a mortgage: 810 (119 second mortgage, 115 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 508
- Public administration (10%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Foster township:
- German (24.6%)
- Irish (14.7%)
- Italian (12.7%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- English (6.9%)
- Swedish (6.9%)
- Polish (5.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (24%)
- Iraq (24%)
- Poland (11%)
- Italy (10%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Germany (6%)
- Japan (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,798 (83%)
- Carpooled: 248 (11%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 46 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 58 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (86%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
34 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.8% of residents of Foster township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,498- In family households: 3,928 (1,083 male householders, 273 female householders)
1,116 spouses, 1,253 children (1,144 natural, 18 adopted, 91 stepchildren), 38 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 46 other relatives, 84 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 570 (253 male householders (197 living alone)), 236 female householders (220 living alone)), 81 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 25 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 650 2-persons, 297 3-persons, 267 4-persons, 107 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 417 1-person, 60 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
866 married couples with children.
186 single-parent households (55 men, 131 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
Here: | 6.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
Here: | 9.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
Here: | 34.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |