Peters township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Peters township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Peters township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3289
- Northeast: 91
- Midwest: 92
- South: 659
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $72,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,515
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 15
- Mobile homes: 92
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Peters township with a mortgage: 602 (77 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 397
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Peters township:
- German (42.0%)
- United States or American (21.8%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- English (6.3%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (62%)
- Nigeria (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,755 (80%)
- Carpooled: 243 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 178 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (48%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Wood (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
96.3% of residents of Peters township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,251- In family households: 3,903 (1,068 male householders, 242 female householders)
1,053 spouses, 1,278 children (1,179 natural, 36 adopted, 63 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 33 other relatives, 153 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 348 (169 male householders (146 living alone)), 148 female householders (140 living alone)), 31 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 595 2-persons, 348 3-persons, 242 4-persons, 80 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 286 1-person, 31 2-persons,
796 married couples with children.
175 single-parent households (55 men, 120 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |