Brighton township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Brighton township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Brighton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% 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: 6732
- Northeast: 201
- Midwest: 544
- South: 399
- West: 76
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $159,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Brighton township, Pennsylvania:
- 621 people in nursing homes
- 28 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 21 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 17 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 9 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,672
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 16
- 50 or more: 106
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,300
Housing units in Brighton township with a mortgage: 1,497 (106 second mortgage, 300 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 838
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Air transportation (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brighton township:
- German (25.4%)
- Italian (20.1%)
- English (9.4%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Polish (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Southern Europe (24%)
- Italy (22%)
- Spain (20%)
- Greece (18%)
- Peru (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,926 (88%)
- Carpooled: 267 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (0%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 90 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Brighton township, Pennsylvania:
- 621 people in nursing homes
- 28 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 21 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 17 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 9 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.5% of residents of Brighton township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,312- In family households: 6,724 (1,945 male householders, 279 female householders)
2,035 spouses, 2,314 children (2,214 natural, 21 adopted, 79 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 84 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 588 (192 male householders (184 living alone)), 368 female householders (350 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 712 (658 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,004 2-persons, 462 3-persons, 477 4-persons, 240 5-persons, 41 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 534 1-person, 26 2-persons,
1,554 married couples with children.
186 single-parent households (41 men, 145 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 98
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 63
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 38
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |