Penn township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Penn township: | 2.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
57% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2684
- Northeast: 101
- Midwest: 40
- South: 75
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $19,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
134 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 860
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 41
- 5 to 9: 139
- 10 to 19: 7
- Mobile homes: 112
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,700
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 419 (72 second mortgage, 53 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 243
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Warehousing and storage (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Health care (14%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (44.0%)
- United States or American (13.5%)
- Irish (5.1%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.5%)
- English (3.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Bangladesh (30%)
- Canada (19%)
- Vietnam (17%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Italy (13%)
- Other Caribbean (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,178 (79%)
- Carpooled: 242 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 37 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Wood (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
134 people in nursing homes
96.5% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 55% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,876- In family households: 2,573 (730 male householders, 167 female householders)
703 spouses, 838 children (790 natural, 28 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 39 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 27 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 303 (114 male householders (105 living alone)), 165 female householders (155 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 138 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 437 2-persons, 219 3-persons, 166 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 18 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 260 1-person, 14 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
487 married couples with children.
150 single-parent households (43 men, 107 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
| Here: | 9.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 24.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |