Eldred township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (78% naturalized citizens)
Eldred township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Eldred township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1897
- Northeast: 574
- Midwest: 56
- South: 53
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
102 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 904
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 30
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 1
- Mobile homes: 93
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $56,300
Housing units in Eldred township with a mortgage: 384 (30 second mortgage, 67 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 225
- Construction (19%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eldred township:
- German (30.8%)
- Pennsylvania German (10.8%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- Italian (8.5%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Dutch (6.2%)
- English (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (29%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Austria (9%)
- Italy (9%)
- Ireland (7%)
- Argentina (7%)
- Netherlands (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 993 (81%)
- Carpooled: 163 (13%)
- Subway or elevated: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 47 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
102 people in nursing homes
94.2% of residents of Eldred township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 41% speak English well).
4.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,563- In family households: 2,273 (585 male householders, 136 female householders)
590 spouses, 809 children (777 natural, 24 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 41 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 25 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 290 (139 male householders (96 living alone)), 88 female householders (73 living alone)), 63 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 102 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 312 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 144 4-persons, 81 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 169 1-person, 47 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
469 married couples with children.
134 single-parent households (65 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
Here: | 6.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
Here: | 8.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 16.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |