Allegheny township, Blair County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Allegheny township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
66% of Allegheny township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6270
- Northeast: 89
- Midwest: 255
- South: 216
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
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
653 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,603
- One, attached: 48
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 117
- 5 to 9: 68
- 10 to 19: 40
- 20 to 49: 53
- 50 or more: 21
- Mobile homes: 883
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,100
Housing units in Allegheny township with a mortgage: 711 (52 second mortgage, 100 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 589
- Construction (10%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Allegheny township:
- German (41.2%)
- United States or American (15.8%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- English (6.9%)
- Italian (5.9%)
- Polish (3.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (54%)
- Poland (18%)
- Austria (16%)
- Thailand (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,553 (86%)
- Carpooled: 240 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 89 (3%)
- Worked at home: 83 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (46%)
- Utility gas (38%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (1%)
653 people in nursing homes
96.7% of residents of Allegheny township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,329- In family households: 5,452 (1,505 male householders, 363 female householders)
1,385 spouses, 1,945 children (1,804 natural, 22 adopted, 119 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 34 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 33 other relatives, 106 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 877 (365 male householders (330 living alone)), 429 female householders (400 living alone)), 83 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 649 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 927 2-persons, 418 3-persons, 354 4-persons, 112 5-persons, 48 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 730 1-person, 64 2-persons,
916 married couples with children.
383 single-parent households (66 men, 317 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 109
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 48.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |