Mount Pleasant township, Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pleasant township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
66% of Mount Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3513
- Northeast: 158
- Midwest: 47
- South: 628
- West: 24
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,169
- One, attached: 60
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 398
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in Mount Pleasant township with a mortgage: 553 (64 second mortgage, 94 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 276
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pleasant township:
- German (50.6%)
- United States or American (16.2%)
- English (7.9%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
- Polish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (51%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (26%)
- Spain (23%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,950 (84%)
- Carpooled: 251 (11%)
- Walked: 56 (2%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 51 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
97.5% of residents of Mount Pleasant township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 45% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,420- In family households: 3,984 (1,126 male householders, 139 female householders)
1,103 spouses, 1,422 children (1,211 natural, 27 adopted, 184 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 21 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 436 (210 male householders (163 living alone)), 148 female householders (122 living alone)), 78 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 525 2-persons, 300 3-persons, 251 4-persons, 128 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 285 1-person, 67 2-persons, 6 5-persons,
899 married couples with children.
204 single-parent households (95 men, 109 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 169
| Here: | 31.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 50
| Here: | 36.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |