Chartiers township, Washington County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (83% naturalized citizens)
Chartiers township: | 1.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Chartiers township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6361
- Northeast: 100
- Midwest: 184
- South: 258
- West: 95
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
235 people in nursing homes
34 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,404
- One, attached: 76
- Two: 109
- 3 or 4: 59
- 5 to 9: 42
- Mobile homes: 248
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,500
Housing units in Chartiers township with a mortgage: 1,025 (135 second mortgage, 210 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,009
- Construction (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chartiers township:
- Italian (20.6%)
- German (16.3%)
- Polish (11.4%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.5%)
- English (5.6%)
- United States or American (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Italy (25%)
- Canada (16%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (8%)
- Ireland (5%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,541 (86%)
- Carpooled: 264 (9%)
- Walked: 71 (2%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
235 people in nursing homes
34 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.7% of residents of Chartiers township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,885- In family households: 5,959 (1,681 male householders, 324 female householders)
1,697 spouses, 1,875 children (1,790 natural, 7 adopted, 78 stepchildren), 152 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 65 parents, 67 other relatives, 73 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 926 (278 male householders (224 living alone)), 534 female householders (484 living alone)), 114 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 269 (224 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 915 2-persons, 486 3-persons, 402 4-persons, 141 5-persons, 57 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 708 1-person, 96 2-persons, 8 5-persons,
1,110 married couples with children.
224 single-parent households (64 men, 160 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 111
Here: | 15.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 1.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 90
Here: | 56.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |