Porter township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Porter township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Porter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1500
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 29
- South: 39
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 490
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 31
- 20 to 49: 15
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,300
Housing units in Porter township with a mortgage: 261 (26 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Porter township:
- German (44.2%)
- United States or American (9.8%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- English (7.7%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- Dutch (4.0%)
- Swedish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (32%)
- Philippines (26%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (11%)
- Korea (11%)
- Canada (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 635 (82%)
- Carpooled: 85 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 30 (4%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Wood (4%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
97.8% of residents of Porter township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 30% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 55% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,633- In family households: 1,424 (389 male householders, 84 female householders)
389 spouses, 464 children (423 natural, 10 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 6 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 209 (57 male householders (42 living alone)), 119 female householders (105 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 227 2-persons, 97 3-persons, 86 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 147 1-person, 25 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
282 married couples with children.
68 single-parent households (30 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 7.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 24.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |