Pleasant Valley township, Potter County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1,139 (37% naturalized citizens)
Pleasant Valley township: | 1138.8% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
42% of Pleasant Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12145
- Northeast: 581
- Midwest: 2006
- South: 875
- West: 354
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $159,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 15.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 3.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,277
- One, attached: 350
- Two: 153
- 3 or 4: 288
- 5 to 9: 580
- 10 to 19: 1,150
- 20 to 49: 749
- 50 or more: 650
- Mobile homes: 791
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,600
Housing units in Pleasant Valley township with a mortgage: 2,080 (149 second mortgage, 452 home equity loan, 29 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 823
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Valley township:
- German (18.2%)
- Dutch (12.5%)
- English (11.3%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- United States or American (6.1%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Italian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (13%)
- Canada (9%)
- Malaysia (9%)
- Germany (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Korea (6%)
- Mexico (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,019 (87%)
- Carpooled: 699 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 87 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 181 (2%)
- Worked at home: 209 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
92.1% of residents of Pleasant Valley township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (68% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,540- In family households: 11,924 (3,198 male householders, 853 female householders)
3,297 spouses, 4,055 children (3,714 natural, 154 adopted, 187 stepchildren), 129 grandchildren, 89 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 103 other relatives, 155 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,616 (1,579 male householders (1,126 living alone)), 1,905 female householders (1,436 living alone)), 1,132 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 465 (375 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,020 2-persons, 888 3-persons, 729 4-persons, 290 5-persons, 93 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,562 1-person, 775 2-persons, 104 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 15 6-persons,
16 married couples with children.
3 single-parent households (0 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 375
Here: | 23.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 193
Here: | 26.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 167
Here: | 7.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |