Decatur township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Decatur township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Decatur township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 95% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2823
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 47
- South: 67
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 915
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 254
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Decatur township with a mortgage: 373 (50 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 231
- Metal and metal products (19%)
- Construction (12%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Decatur township:
- German (40.3%)
- United States or American (29.6%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- English (5.3%)
- Polish (2.3%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (26%)
- France (19%)
- Korea (19%)
- Venezuela (15%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- Jamaica (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,208 (83%)
- Carpooled: 189 (13%)
- Walked: 16 (1%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Wood (18%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
95.6% of residents of Decatur township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,021- In family households: 2,709 (777 male householders, 119 female householders)
785 spouses, 866 children (746 natural, 10 adopted, 110 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 25 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 312 (142 male householders (91 living alone)), 93 female householders (89 living alone)), 77 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 376 2-persons, 211 3-persons, 203 4-persons, 69 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 180 1-person, 41 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
594 married couples with children.
105 single-parent households (56 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 47.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |