Collier township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Collier township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Collier township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4682
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 181
- South: 178
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $154,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,779
- One, attached: 144
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 15
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 384
Median worth of mobile homes: $60,600
Housing units in Collier township with a mortgage: 908 (67 second mortgage, 171 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 684
- Construction (14%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Collier township:
- German (23.5%)
- Italian (17.3%)
- Polish (14.3%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- English (7.7%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
- Belgian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Argentina (25%)
- Japan (15%)
- Austria (12%)
- Germany (9%)
- Greece (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,936 (85%)
- Carpooled: 156 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 70 (3%)
- Walked: 28 (1%)
- Other means: 28 (1%)
- Worked at home: 57 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
2 people in religious group quarters
94.2% of residents of Collier township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
4.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,239- In family households: 4,487 (1,234 male householders, 309 female householders)
1,327 spouses, 1,383 children (1,337 natural, 38 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 49 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 45 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 752 (232 male householders (188 living alone)), 444 female householders (416 living alone)), 76 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 26 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 830 2-persons, 298 3-persons, 265 4-persons, 105 5-persons, 39 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 604 1-person, 65 2-persons, 7 4-persons,
833 married couples with children.
117 single-parent households (33 men, 84 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 66
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 78
| Here: | 47.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |