Montgomery township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (73% naturalized citizens)
Montgomery township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Montgomery township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 21% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3137
- Northeast: 156
- Midwest: 102
- South: 1414
- West: 101
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
3 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,528
- One, attached: 10
- Mobile homes: 308
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,000
Housing units in Montgomery township with a mortgage: 725 (47 second mortgage, 117 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 319
- Construction (17%)
- Machinery (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Montgomery township:
- German (40.3%)
- United States or American (29.4%)
- English (5.5%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- Welsh (2.1%)
- Swedish (2.1%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (57%)
- Iran (27%)
- Ecuador (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,227 (80%)
- Carpooled: 362 (13%)
- Walked: 64 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 131 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (41%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Wood (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Utility gas (3%)
3 people in nursing homes
98.6% of residents of Montgomery township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,945- In family households: 4,579 (1,331 male householders, 132 female householders)
1,327 spouses, 1,548 children (1,447 natural, 6 adopted, 95 stepchildren), 98 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 6 other relatives, 98 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 366 (191 male householders (160 living alone)), 124 female householders (105 living alone)), 51 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 614 2-persons, 369 3-persons, 293 4-persons, 120 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 265 1-person, 43 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
1,028 married couples with children.
141 single-parent households (97 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 97
Here: | 16.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
Here: | 8.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 43
Here: | 27.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |