Parks township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Parks township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Parks township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2597
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 38
- South: 70
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 994
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 143
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,500
Housing units in Parks township with a mortgage: 349 (30 second mortgage, 38 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 327
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (12%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Parks township:
- German (25.6%)
- Italian (13.7%)
- United States or American (12.5%)
- Slovak (7.8%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- English (5.4%)
- Polish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (42%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (33%)
- Germany (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 875 (81%)
- Carpooled: 104 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (2%)
- Other means: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 53 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.9% of residents of Parks township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,734- In family households: 2,375 (626 male householders, 165 female householders)
629 spouses, 815 children (763 natural, 15 adopted, 37 stepchildren), 39 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 26 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 359 (161 male householders (130 living alone)), 151 female householders (133 living alone)), 47 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 380 2-persons, 188 3-persons, 144 4-persons, 56 5-persons, 23 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 263 1-person, 43 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
459 married couples with children.
103 single-parent households (39 men, 64 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 9.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |