Perry township, Greene County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Perry township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 22% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 660
- Northeast: 33
- Midwest: 88
- South: 889
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
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
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 535
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 206
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 142 (21 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 140
- Construction (16%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (14%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Extraction workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- German (22.8%)
- Irish (14.9%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- English (11.8%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- Dutch (5.7%)
- Polish (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Western Europe (40%)
- Vietnam (20%)
- Dominican Republic (20%)
- Ecuador (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 591 (86%)
- Carpooled: 76 (11%)
- Walked: 13 (2%)
- Worked at home: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (8%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.3% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,715- In family households: 1,508 (408 male householders, 97 female householders)
408 spouses, 487 children (461 natural, 8 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 27 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 207 (76 male householders (60 living alone)), 101 female householders (92 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 235 2-persons, 125 3-persons, 96 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 152 1-person, 22 2-persons, 3 5-persons,
275 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (20 men, 59 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 26.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |