Donegal township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Donegal township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Donegal township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% 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: 2340
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 29
- South: 46
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
98 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 812
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 21
- 10 to 19: 4
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 340
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Donegal township with a mortgage: 196 (10 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 236
- Construction (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (21%)
- Health care (20%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Donegal township:
- German (41.4%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- United States or American (9.2%)
- English (6.0%)
- Polish (5.8%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Sweden (67%)
- Canada (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 808 (83%)
- Carpooled: 65 (7%)
- Walked: 59 (6%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Wood (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98 people in nursing homes
96.6% of residents of Donegal township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,354- In family households: 2,028 (583 male householders, 108 female householders)
565 spouses, 681 children (630 natural, 15 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 14 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 326 (158 male householders (137 living alone)), 110 female householders (105 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 99 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 325 2-persons, 137 3-persons, 152 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 242 1-person, 10 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
400 married couples with children.
92 single-parent households (36 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 71
Here: | 23.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 13.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 47
Here: | 57.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |