Allegheny township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Allegheny township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
84% of Allegheny township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 571
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 21
- South: 37
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 290
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 92
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Allegheny township with a mortgage: 45 (2 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 59
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Allegheny township:
- German (62.2%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- Italian (5.5%)
- English (4.2%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.0%)
- Irish (3.8%)
- Hungarian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 226 (78%)
- Carpooled: 34 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (6%)
- Worked at home: 10 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (54%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Coal or coke (13%)
- Wood (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
99.0% of residents of Allegheny township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 638- In family households: 570 (163 male householders, 21 female householders)
163 spouses, 198 children (187 natural, 9 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 7 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 68 (39 male householders (31 living alone)), 20 female householders (20 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 10 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 72 2-persons, 60 3-persons, 41 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 1 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 51 1-person, 6 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
109 married couples with children.
17 single-parent households (9 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
Here: | 6.3% |
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: 1
Here: | 33.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |