Shippen township, Cameron County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Shippen township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Shippen 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, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2177
- Northeast: 122
- Midwest: 76
- South: 107
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,173
- Two: 23
- Mobile homes: 257
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,300
Housing units in Shippen township with a mortgage: 334 (41 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 280
- Metal and metal products (30%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Metal and metal products (19%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shippen township:
- German (28.3%)
- Italian (11.7%)
- United States or American (11.0%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (7.6%)
- Polish (6.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 936 (86%)
- Carpooled: 121 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 12 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Wood (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
99.1% of residents of Shippen township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 56% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,484- In family households: 2,178 (623 male householders, 107 female householders)
645 spouses, 744 children (706 natural, 20 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 7 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 306 (162 male householders (121 living alone)), 91 female householders (84 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 12 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 389 2-persons, 118 3-persons, 119 4-persons, 69 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 205 1-person, 42 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
465 married couples with children.
111 single-parent households (45 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
Here: | 12.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
Here: | 8.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |