Armstrong township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (27% naturalized citizens)
| Armstrong township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Armstrong township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2707
- Northeast: 83
- Midwest: 111
- South: 94
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
34 people in nursing homes
15 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 791
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 16
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 415
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,900
Housing units in Armstrong township with a mortgage: 316 (24 second mortgage, 68 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Construction (17%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Carpenters (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Armstrong township:
- German (29.9%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- Italian (9.0%)
- English (6.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.9%)
- Polish (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (50%)
- Vietnam (20%)
- Italy (17%)
- Ireland (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,186 (86%)
- Carpooled: 129 (9%)
- Walked: 6 (0%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 52 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (4%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
34 people in nursing homes
15 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.1% of residents of Armstrong township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,040- In family households: 2,716 (746 male householders, 148 female householders)
742 spouses, 982 children (929 natural, 22 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 20 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 324 (135 male householders (110 living alone)), 140 female householders (125 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 50 (34 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 379 2-persons, 227 3-persons, 189 4-persons, 83 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 235 1-person, 30 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
605 married couples with children.
152 single-parent households (52 men, 100 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 2.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
| Here: | 17.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |