Elk township, Warren County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Elk township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Elk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 409
- Northeast: 115
- Midwest: 19
- South: 9
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.9% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 286
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 47
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,900
Housing units in Elk township with a mortgage: 82 (4 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 34
- Construction (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (7%)
- Petroleum and coal products (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk township:
- German (30.9%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- Swedish (10.0%)
- English (7.9%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Polish (7.0%)
- Italian (6.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 284 (92%)
- Carpooled: 19 (6%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Wood (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Electricity (3%)
- No fuel used (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.5% of residents of Elk township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 560- In family households: 504 (160 male householders, 10 female householders)
148 spouses, 178 children (159 natural, 4 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 56 (30 male householders (25 living alone)), 15 female householders (14 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 81 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 35 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 39 1-person, 4 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
109 married couples with children.
16 single-parent households (11 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |