Harrison township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (90% naturalized citizens)
| Harrison township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Harrison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10067
- Northeast: 141
- Midwest: 198
- South: 347
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Harrison township, Pennsylvania:
- 29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 14 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in other group homes
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,795
- One, attached: 348
- Two: 235
- 3 or 4: 329
- 5 to 9: 171
- 10 to 19: 140
- 20 to 49: 89
- 50 or more: 137
- Mobile homes: 2
Housing units in Harrison township with a mortgage: 1,698 (150 second mortgage, 297 home equity loan, 22 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,654
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harrison township:
- German (21.9%)
- Polish (19.0%)
- Italian (13.0%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Slovak (8.7%)
- English (4.7%)
- United States or American (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (26%)
- Germany (19%)
- Italy (15%)
- Russia (13%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (4%)
- Ukraine (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,754 (81%)
- Carpooled: 371 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 156 (3%)
- Bicycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 244 (5%)
- Other means: 41 (1%)
- Worked at home: 69 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (92%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Harrison township, Pennsylvania:
- 29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 14 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in other group homes
- 4 people in religious group quarters
96.1% of residents of Harrison township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,867- In family households: 9,012 (2,304 male householders, 813 female householders)
2,383 spouses, 3,037 children (2,810 natural, 50 adopted, 177 stepchildren), 141 grandchildren, 51 brothers or sisters, 77 parents, 91 other relatives, 115 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,855 (666 male householders (584 living alone)), 1,000 female householders (931 living alone)), 189 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 67 (24 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,568 2-persons, 741 3-persons, 549 4-persons, 193 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,515 1-person, 137 2-persons, 6 4-persons, 2 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
1,484 married couples with children.
664 single-parent households (108 men, 556 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 96
| Here: | 9.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 57
| Here: | 23.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |