Perry township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Perry township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% 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: 998
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 14
- South: 29
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 440
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 90
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,200
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 106 (6 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 131
- Chemicals (24%)
- Paper (21%)
- Social assistance (17%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (31%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (20%)
- Food and beverage stores (18%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (21%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (17%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (13%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (22%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (20%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (18%)
- Secondary school teachers (12%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- German (49.2%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.8%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
- Italian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 372 (86%)
- Carpooled: 28 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Electricity (1%)
99.0% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,064- In family households: 978 (269 male householders, 54 female householders)
279 spouses, 328 children (312 natural, 9 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 9 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 86 (40 male householders (35 living alone)), 41 female householders (39 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 157 2-persons, 69 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 74 1-person, 7 2-persons,
205 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (15 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 4.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 18.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |