Girard township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (82% naturalized citizens)
Girard township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Girard township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4268
- Northeast: 231
- Midwest: 368
- South: 159
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
15 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,192
- One, attached: 40
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 33
- 50 or more: 65
- Mobile homes: 678
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,100
Housing units in Girard township with a mortgage: 616 (72 second mortgage, 105 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 281
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Construction (11%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Girard township:
- German (29.1%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- United States or American (10.1%)
- Italian (9.8%)
- Polish (8.9%)
- English (6.7%)
- Slovak (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (35%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (31%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
- Russia (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,209 (86%)
- Carpooled: 241 (9%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 104 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
15 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.8% of residents of Girard township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (44% speak English very well, 56% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,118- In family households: 4,515 (1,178 male householders, 234 female householders)
1,178 spouses, 1,708 children (1,541 natural, 71 adopted, 96 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 61 other relatives, 88 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 603 (273 male householders (222 living alone)), 260 female householders (231 living alone)), 70 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 15 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 552 2-persons, 368 3-persons, 294 4-persons, 135 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 453 1-person, 80 2-persons,
1,037 married couples with children.
261 single-parent households (79 men, 182 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 63
Here: | 9.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 78
Here: | 21.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 51
Here: | 32.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |