Perry township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
Perry township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1778
- Northeast: 42
- Midwest: 39
- South: 38
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 681
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 10
- Mobile homes: 85
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,500
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 259 (22 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 223
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Construction (13%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- German (28.7%)
- Italian (15.8%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (9.8%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Polish (5.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (58%)
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Chile (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 827 (90%)
- Carpooled: 62 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 15 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.7% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,933- In family households: 1,731 (482 male householders, 91 female householders)
499 spouses, 577 children (532 natural, 11 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 10 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 202 (76 male householders (58 living alone)), 93 female householders (86 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 233 2-persons, 165 3-persons, 120 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 144 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
332 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (16 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 3.6% |
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: 8
Here: | 18.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |