Ferguson township, Centre County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (23% naturalized citizens)
Ferguson township: | 9.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
46% of Ferguson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8578
- Northeast: 1323
- Midwest: 1144
- South: 1002
- West: 456
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $142,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
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
People in group quarters in Ferguson township, Pennsylvania:
- 51 people in nursing homes
- 23 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,366
- One, attached: 490
- Two: 218
- 3 or 4: 127
- 5 to 9: 381
- 10 to 19: 621
- 20 to 49: 168
- 50 or more: 187
- Mobile homes: 141
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,200
Housing units in Ferguson township with a mortgage: 2,210 (210 second mortgage, 395 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 870
- Educational services (33%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (2%)
- Educational services (43%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Postsecondary teachers (15%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Life and physical scientists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Postsecondary teachers (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ferguson township:
- German (24.2%)
- English (9.0%)
- Italian (8.6%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- Polish (4.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (17%)
- Korea (12%)
- India (11%)
- Germany (6%)
- Iran (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Turkey (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,193 (71%)
- Carpooled: 1,018 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 387 (5%)
- Ferryboat: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 26 (0%)
- Bicycle: 128 (2%)
- Walked: 236 (3%)
- Other means: 47 (1%)
- Worked at home: 302 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (38%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
People in group quarters in Ferguson township, Pennsylvania:
- 51 people in nursing homes
- 23 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
88.8% of residents of Ferguson township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
4.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
4.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 8% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,977- In family households: 10,544 (2,810 male householders, 628 female householders)
3,081 spouses, 3,479 children (3,281 natural, 90 adopted, 108 stepchildren), 198 grandchildren, 75 brothers or sisters, 53 parents, 66 other relatives, 154 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,433 (1,109 male householders (641 living alone)), 952 female householders (624 living alone)), 1,372 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 86 (42 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,494 2-persons, 772 3-persons, 758 4-persons, 339 5-persons, 70 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,265 1-person, 388 2-persons, 216 3-persons, 192 4-persons,
2,662 married couples with children.
367 single-parent households (72 men, 295 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 148
Here: | 10.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 2.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 69
Here: | 4.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |