Franklin township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2407
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 46
- South: 119
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $18,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 805
- One, attached: 93
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 165
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,600
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 235 (34 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 322
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- German (16.9%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- Italian (13.2%)
- Slovak (10.8%)
- Polish (10.5%)
- English (8.2%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (44%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (33%)
- United Kingdom (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 883 (87%)
- Carpooled: 84 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 23 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (55%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.7% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,601- In family households: 2,304 (641 male householders, 110 female householders)
617 spouses, 796 children (729 natural, 31 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 32 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 297 (110 male householders (88 living alone)), 143 female householders (138 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 27 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 326 2-persons, 193 3-persons, 154 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 226 1-person, 14 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
434 married couples with children.
100 single-parent households (22 men, 78 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 18.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 32.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |