Covington township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Covington township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Covington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 903
- Northeast: 116
- Midwest: 18
- South: 24
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.7%
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: 329
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 140
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Covington township with a mortgage: 101 (7 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 49
- Metal and metal products (21%)
- Construction (10%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Covington township:
- German (22.6%)
- United States or American (14.4%)
- English (11.8%)
- Polish (11.7%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
- Italian (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Greece (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 427 (87%)
- Carpooled: 43 (9%)
- Bicycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Wood (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
97.7% of residents of Covington township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (37% speak English very well, 53% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,069- In family households: 948 (241 male householders, 58 female householders)
260 spouses, 328 children (303 natural, 14 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 10 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 121 (47 male householders (36 living alone)), 51 female householders (43 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 126 2-persons, 60 3-persons, 70 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 79 1-person, 18 2-persons, 1 5-persons,
210 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (12 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 5.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 11.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |