Boggs township, Centre County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Boggs township: | 3.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Boggs township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2596
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 22
- South: 61
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
41 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 803
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 36
- Mobile homes: 269
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,100
Housing units in Boggs township with a mortgage: 373 (43 second mortgage, 75 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 192
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Computer and electronic products (11%)
- Health care (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Boggs township:
- German (31.1%)
- United States or American (15.0%)
- English (10.5%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Russian (4.7%)
- Italian (3.8%)
- Dutch (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (50%)
- Other South Central Asia (18%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Mexico (6%)
- Germany (4%)
- Other Western Asia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,117 (83%)
- Carpooled: 151 (11%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 72 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Coal or coke (9%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
41 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.3% of residents of Boggs township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (20% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 46% speak English not well, 18% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English well, 57% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,800- In family households: 2,498 (639 male householders, 182 female householders)
671 spouses, 843 children (763 natural, 10 adopted, 70 stepchildren), 48 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 52 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 302 (136 male householders (101 living alone)), 120 female householders (112 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 40 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 351 2-persons, 212 3-persons, 148 4-persons, 81 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 213 1-person, 39 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
508 married couples with children.
112 single-parent households (22 men, 90 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 2.2% |
| 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: 4
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |