Deer Creek township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Deer Creek township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
82% of Deer Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 401
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 49
- South: 10
- West: 2
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 156
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in Deer Creek township with a mortgage: 20 (2 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 29
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Private households (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Deer Creek township:
- German (29.3%)
- United States or American (17.0%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- English (7.6%)
- Italian (6.6%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 178 (78%)
- Carpooled: 20 (9%)
- Walked: 6 (3%)
- Worked at home: 23 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Wood (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Electricity (10%)
9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
85.7% of residents of Deer Creek township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
13.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 460- In family households: 430 (121 male householders, 10 female householders)
129 spouses, 150 children (144 natural, 4 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 2 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 30 (16 male householders (13 living alone)), 10 female householders (10 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 18 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 64 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 23 1-person, 3 2-persons,
90 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (0 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 18.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 100.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |