Brown township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Brown township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Brown 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, 78% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3503
- Northeast: 84
- Midwest: 89
- South: 110
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $177,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
58 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,221
- One, attached: 73
- Two: 56
- 3 or 4: 22
- 5 to 9: 91
- 10 to 19: 17
- Mobile homes: 31
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $73,300
Housing units in Brown township with a mortgage: 528 (53 second mortgage, 142 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 458
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brown township:
- German (44.2%)
- United States or American (13.1%)
- English (6.5%)
- Irish (6.0%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.3%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (44%)
- Portugal (32%)
- Laos (24%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,353 (74%)
- Carpooled: 265 (15%)
- Taxi: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 75 (4%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 109 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Wood (9%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
58 people in nursing homes
88.9% of residents of Brown township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
10.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (45% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,795- In family households: 3,389 (927 male householders, 126 female householders)
912 spouses, 1,291 children (1,226 natural, 0 adopted, 65 stepchildren), 55 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 25 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 406 (134 male householders (93 living alone)), 198 female householders (180 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 57 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 526 2-persons, 210 3-persons, 170 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 37 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 273 1-person, 49 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
861 married couples with children.
122 single-parent households (33 men, 89 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 84
| Here: | 16.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 31
| Here: | 13.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |