Brokenstraw township, Warren County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Brokenstraw township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
60% of Brokenstraw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 82% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1752
- Northeast: 142
- Midwest: 62
- South: 71
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
208 people in nursing homes
47 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 648
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 5
- 10 to 19: 22
- 20 to 49: 42
- Mobile homes: 207
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,000
Housing units in Brokenstraw township with a mortgage: 189 (18 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Metal and metal products (19%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Petroleum and coal products (6%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (18%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electricians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brokenstraw township:
- German (23.4%)
- United States or American (17.8%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Swedish (9.9%)
- English (8.8%)
- Polish (5.5%)
- Italian (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (56%)
- Korea (22%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 645 (83%)
- Carpooled: 80 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 22 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Wood (9%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
208 people in nursing homes
47 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.3% of residents of Brokenstraw township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,813- In family households: 1,530 (409 male householders, 117 female householders)
429 spouses, 476 children (433 natural, 7 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 20 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 283 (99 male householders (75 living alone)), 141 female householders (129 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 255 (220 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 255 2-persons, 118 3-persons, 98 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 204 1-person, 36 2-persons,
282 married couples with children.
105 single-parent households (23 men, 82 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 19.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |