Sterling township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (63% naturalized citizens)
Sterling township: | 2.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Sterling township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 779
- Northeast: 372
- Midwest: 12
- South: 38
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $72,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 522
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 103
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,600
Housing units in Sterling township with a mortgage: 175 (17 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 81
- Construction (19%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sterling township:
- German (26.3%)
- Irish (15.5%)
- United States or American (10.1%)
- Polish (9.4%)
- Italian (8.9%)
- English (7.5%)
- Welsh (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (26%)
- Poland (22%)
- Mexico (15%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- Dominican Republic (7%)
- Other Caribbean (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 480 (81%)
- Carpooled: 65 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (3%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (8%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
96.4% of residents of Sterling township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 21% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,251- In family households: 1,144 (305 male householders, 83 female householders)
303 spouses, 374 children (355 natural, 13 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 8 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 107 (51 male householders (45 living alone)), 41 female householders (37 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 177 2-persons, 84 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 82 1-person, 6 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
220 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (14 men, 43 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 7.4% |
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: 16
Here: | 37.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |