Porter township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (43% naturalized citizens)
Porter township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
79% of Porter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1362
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 13
- South: 36
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.9% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 492
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 107
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,000
Housing units in Porter township with a mortgage: 100 (4 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 189
- Construction (13%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Porter township:
- German (54.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.6%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- English (5.8%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
- United States or American (4.0%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (64%)
- Turkey (21%)
- Venezuela (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 516 (81%)
- Carpooled: 66 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 42 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Electricity (1%)
97.7% of residents of Porter township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 21% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,466- In family households: 1,292 (363 male householders, 62 female householders)
377 spouses, 437 children (403 natural, 16 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 12 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 174 (88 male householders (73 living alone)), 58 female householders (52 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 193 2-persons, 84 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
291 married couples with children.
42 single-parent households (10 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 3.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 4.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 26.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |