Bethel township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Bethel township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Bethel township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1216
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 29
- South: 24
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
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: 550
- One, attached: 1
- Two: 8
- 5 to 9: 2
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 86
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Bethel township with a mortgage: 169 (8 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (26%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bethel township:
- German (35.0%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- Italian (8.4%)
- Polish (7.0%)
- English (5.5%)
- Slovak (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (35%)
- Canada (29%)
- United Kingdom (24%)
- Germany (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 491 (88%)
- Carpooled: 40 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
97.7% of residents of Bethel township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,296- In family households: 1,140 (325 male householders, 55 female householders)
342 spouses, 368 children (357 natural, 2 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 8 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 156 (81 male householders (73 living alone)), 51 female householders (39 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 180 2-persons, 83 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 112 1-person, 19 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
236 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (11 men, 43 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 1.5% |
| 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: 18
| Here: | 39.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |