Perry township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Perry township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
79% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2527
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 82
- South: 109
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
5 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 762
- One, attached: 141
- Two: 87
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 251
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,200
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 296 (62 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 333
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- Slovak (16.5%)
- Italian (14.1%)
- German (11.7%)
- English (9.5%)
- Polish (8.3%)
- Hungarian (6.6%)
- United States or American (6.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,094 (88%)
- Carpooled: 69 (6%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 49 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (70%)
- Utility gas (14%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
5 people in nursing homes
96.5% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,749- In family households: 2,360 (669 male householders, 154 female householders)
652 spouses, 749 children (691 natural, 22 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 33 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 389 (142 male householders (112 living alone)), 213 female householders (207 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 37 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 390 2-persons, 218 3-persons, 141 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 20 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 319 1-person, 36 2-persons,
390 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (21 men, 81 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
Here: | 5.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |