Mount Pleasant township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pleasant township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
79% of Mount Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10341
- Northeast: 150
- Midwest: 233
- South: 317
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
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 Mount Pleasant township, Pennsylvania:
- 44 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in other group homes
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,530
- One, attached: 145
- Two: 196
- 3 or 4: 37
- 5 to 9: 90
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 18
- Mobile homes: 641
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,200
Housing units in Mount Pleasant township with a mortgage: 1,410 (156 second mortgage, 287 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,339
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pleasant township:
- German (25.7%)
- Polish (18.5%)
- Slovak (11.5%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- English (6.2%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (25%)
- Other Caribbean (22%)
- Mexico (13%)
- Other Northern Europe (10%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (8%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,492 (85%)
- Carpooled: 504 (10%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 123 (2%)
- Other means: 29 (1%)
- Worked at home: 102 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (63%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Mount Pleasant township, Pennsylvania:
- 44 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in other group homes
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.2% of residents of Mount Pleasant township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,121- In family households: 9,819 (2,737 male householders, 545 female householders)
2,782 spouses, 3,320 children (3,106 natural, 92 adopted, 122 stepchildren), 93 grandchildren, 72 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 138 other relatives, 98 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,302 (478 male householders (400 living alone)), 667 female householders (615 living alone)), 157 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 71 (53 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,486 2-persons, 752 3-persons, 703 4-persons, 278 5-persons, 46 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,015 1-person, 111 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 11 4-persons,
1,849 married couples with children.
406 single-parent households (123 men, 283 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 95
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 72
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 57
| Here: | 17.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |