Perry township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Perry township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1310
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 68
- South: 61
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 438
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 8
- Mobile homes: 170
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,200
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 99 (8 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 115
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- German (36.4%)
- English (16.1%)
- United States or American (11.8%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.7%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 540 (83%)
- Carpooled: 49 (8%)
- Walked: 19 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 41 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.1% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,482- In family households: 1,316 (366 male householders, 70 female householders)
381 spouses, 444 children (399 natural, 10 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 5 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 166 (61 male householders (48 living alone)), 82 female householders (76 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 202 2-persons, 100 3-persons, 89 4-persons, 30 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 124 1-person, 18 2-persons, 1 5-persons,
285 married couples with children.
46 single-parent households (17 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 6.2% |
| 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: 11
| Here: | 35.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |