Penn Hills township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (72% naturalized citizens)
| Penn Hills township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Penn Hills township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 82% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 40244
- Northeast: 828
- Midwest: 1371
- South: 2486
- West: 504
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
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 Penn Hills township, Pennsylvania:
- 368 people in nursing homes
- 53 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 17,123
- One, attached: 703
- Two: 462
- 3 or 4: 185
- 5 to 9: 359
- 10 to 19: 502
- 20 to 49: 302
- 50 or more: 713
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $85,000
Housing units in Penn Hills township with a mortgage: 9,368 (1,223 second mortgage, 1,373 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,698
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn Hills township:
- Italian (20.3%)
- German (15.5%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- English (4.7%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- United States or American (3.6%)
- Slovak (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (33%)
- India (10%)
- Germany (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Canada (4%)
- Ukraine (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,680 (77%)
- Carpooled: 2,495 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,651 (8%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 26 (0%)
- Bicycle: 22 (0%)
- Walked: 212 (1%)
- Other means: 61 (0%)
- Worked at home: 486 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (8%)
People in group quarters in Penn Hills township, Pennsylvania:
- 368 people in nursing homes
- 53 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in other group homes
95.0% of residents of Penn Hills township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (56% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 46,366- In family households: 39,384 (9,539 male householders, 3,740 female householders)
9,900 spouses, 13,344 children (12,544 natural, 311 adopted, 489 stepchildren), 891 grandchildren, 527 brothers or sisters, 411 parents, 459 other relatives, 573 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,982 (2,434 male householders (2,072 living alone)), 3,754 female householders (3,425 living alone)), 794 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 443 (369 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,274 2-persons, 3,125 3-persons, 2,490 4-persons, 986 5-persons, 332 6-persons, 72 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,497 1-person, 576 2-persons, 100 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 5 5-persons,
6,538 married couples with children.
2,541 single-parent households (395 men, 2,146 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 921
| Here: | 18.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 141
| Here: | 6.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 496
| Here: | 27.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |