Elk Creek township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Elk Creek township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Elk Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 89% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1568
- Northeast: 50
- Midwest: 102
- South: 48
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 555
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 125
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,100
Housing units in Elk Creek township with a mortgage: 122 (10 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 71
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk Creek township:
- German (28.2%)
- Polish (12.3%)
- United States or American (12.2%)
- English (8.3%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- Slovak (4.5%)
- Italian (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Yugoslavia (27%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Philippines (13%)
- Canada (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 666 (77%)
- Carpooled: 122 (14%)
- Walked: 29 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 42 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Wood (12%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Other fuel (4%)
98.1% of residents of Elk Creek township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,805- In family households: 1,639 (466 male householders, 63 female householders)
445 spouses, 572 children (533 natural, 12 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 16 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 166 (83 male householders (57 living alone)), 55 female householders (52 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 241 2-persons, 92 3-persons, 125 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 109 1-person, 29 2-persons,
374 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (21 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 31.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |