Portage township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Portage township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Portage township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3667
- Northeast: 74
- Midwest: 41
- South: 80
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Portage township, Pennsylvania:
- 59 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,376
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 13
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 102
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,400
Housing units in Portage township with a mortgage: 529 (25 second mortgage, 57 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 628
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Portage township:
- Polish (25.9%)
- German (20.3%)
- Slovak (7.7%)
- English (7.0%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- Hungarian (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Peru (67%)
- Dominican Republic (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,309 (82%)
- Carpooled: 177 (11%)
- Walked: 37 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 56 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Utility gas (37%)
- Coal or coke (11%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Portage township, Pennsylvania:
- 59 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 11 people in homes for the mentally ill
95.9% of residents of Portage township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 44% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,814- In family households: 3,402 (894 male householders, 181 female householders)
860 spouses, 1,239 children (1,167 natural, 31 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 52 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 28 parents, 69 other relatives, 54 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 412 (105 male householders (87 living alone)), 268 female householders (262 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 92 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 458 2-persons, 261 3-persons, 220 4-persons, 96 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 349 1-person, 10 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
646 married couples with children.
119 single-parent households (38 men, 81 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 56
Here: | 47.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |