Pine township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (62% naturalized citizens)
Pine township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
58% of Pine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3763
- Northeast: 290
- Midwest: 199
- South: 132
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $64,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
461 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
82 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,231
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 309
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,300
Housing units in Pine township with a mortgage: 574 (40 second mortgage, 104 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 362
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pine township:
- German (30.3%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Italian (8.7%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- English (6.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- Scottish (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (33%)
- Jamaica (23%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (17%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Germany (9%)
- Poland (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,618 (87%)
- Carpooled: 167 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 37 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
461 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
82 people in nursing homes
95.7% of residents of Pine township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (34% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 53% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,989- In family households: 3,591 (1,055 male householders, 158 female householders)
1,036 spouses, 1,181 children (1,111 natural, 0 adopted, 70 stepchildren), 73 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 19 other relatives, 46 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 398 (163 male householders (123 living alone)), 186 female householders (173 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 543 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 568 2-persons, 246 3-persons, 247 4-persons, 113 5-persons, 39 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 296 1-person, 49 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
782 married couples with children.
140 single-parent households (49 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 40
Here: | 6.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 124
Here: | 24.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 16.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |