Centre township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Centre township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Centre 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, 83% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1953
- Northeast: 78
- Midwest: 58
- South: 67
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 706
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 3
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 146
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,800
Housing units in Centre township with a mortgage: 315 (34 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 144
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Centre township:
- German (42.1%)
- United States or American (17.3%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- English (3.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (56%)
- Germany (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 991 (84%)
- Carpooled: 138 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Railroad: 1 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 26 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Wood (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
98.0% of residents of Centre township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,209- In family households: 1,966 (582 male householders, 75 female householders)
572 spouses, 661 children (592 natural, 12 adopted, 57 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 14 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 243 (116 male householders (85 living alone)), 75 female householders (69 living alone)), 52 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 283 2-persons, 162 3-persons, 136 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 154 1-person, 31 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
406 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (45 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
Here: | 6.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 4.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 12.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |