Liberty township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Liberty township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Liberty township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% 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: 1135
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 51
- South: 41
- West: 12
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
6 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 405
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 8
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,200
Housing units in Liberty township with a mortgage: 161 (4 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 85
- Construction (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Liberty township:
- German (29.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (11.1%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- English (8.7%)
- Polish (6.7%)
- United States or American (6.5%)
- Italian (5.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (67%)
- Canada (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 555 (83%)
- Carpooled: 40 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (45%)
- Utility gas (29%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
6 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
98.3% of residents of Liberty township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,270- In family households: 1,136 (338 male householders, 41 female householders)
338 spouses, 377 children (347 natural, 11 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 134 (67 male householders (56 living alone)), 45 female householders (35 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 175 2-persons, 95 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 91 1-person, 18 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
259 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (17 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 47.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |