Porter township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Porter township: | 0.2% |
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, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1975
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 6
- South: 23
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 659
- One, attached: 108
- Two: 40
- 3 or 4: 27
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 90
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,400
Housing units in Porter township with a mortgage: 262 (34 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 375
- Computer and electronic products (12%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Porter township:
- German (48.4%)
- United States or American (16.6%)
- Dutch (7.0%)
- Irish (5.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.2%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- English (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 683 (74%)
- Carpooled: 198 (22%)
- Walked: 26 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (62%)
- Coal or coke (26%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
96.8% of residents of Porter township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 60% don't speak English at all).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,039- In family households: 1,775 (490 male householders, 130 female householders)
487 spouses, 558 children (509 natural, 6 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 3 other relatives, 54 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 264 (124 male householders (112 living alone)), 110 female householders (98 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 305 2-persons, 162 3-persons, 102 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 210 1-person, 21 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
299 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (40 men, 50 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: 11
Here: | 29.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |