North East township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (41% naturalized citizens)
| North East township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of North East township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6500
- Northeast: 583
- Midwest: 224
- South: 155
- West: 77
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $84,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in North East township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,089 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 24 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,985
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 20
- 10 to 19: 41
- Mobile homes: 554
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,200
Housing units in North East township with a mortgage: 825 (52 second mortgage, 158 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 431
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Food (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in North East township:
- German (27.6%)
- Italian (13.4%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Polish (9.0%)
- English (8.8%)
- United States or American (6.9%)
- Swedish (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Yugoslavia (37%)
- Canada (20%)
- Germany (11%)
- Melanesia (8%)
- Italy (6%)
- South Africa (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,770 (79%)
- Carpooled: 321 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 18 (1%)
- Walked: 247 (7%)
- Worked at home: 124 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in North East township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,089 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 24 people in other group homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.6% of residents of North East township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 35% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (56% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,583- In family households: 5,928 (1,619 male householders, 256 female householders)
1,677 spouses, 2,176 children (1,975 natural, 103 adopted, 98 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 42 other relatives, 89 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 655 (297 male householders (259 living alone)), 313 female householders (308 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,121 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 827 2-persons, 414 3-persons, 362 4-persons, 165 5-persons, 100 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 567 1-person, 43 2-persons,
1,467 married couples with children.
247 single-parent households (64 men, 183 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 197
| Here: | 19.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 67
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |