Plumcreek township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
Plumcreek township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Plumcreek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% 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: 2104
- Northeast: 42
- Midwest: 41
- South: 61
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 674
- One, attached: 4
- Mobile homes: 249
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,500
Housing units in Plumcreek township with a mortgage: 195 (21 second mortgage, 38 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 229
- Construction (14%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (11%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Extraction workers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plumcreek township:
- German (41.0%)
- United States or American (18.0%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Italian (5.9%)
- English (4.1%)
- Slovak (4.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (43%)
- Germany (29%)
- Korea (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 809 (86%)
- Carpooled: 59 (6%)
- Walked: 32 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 26 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.6% of residents of Plumcreek township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (46% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,222- In family households: 1,996 (587 male householders, 87 female householders)
594 spouses, 615 children (586 natural, 6 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 30 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 226 (108 male householders (88 living alone)), 79 female householders (65 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 83 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 311 2-persons, 165 3-persons, 140 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 153 1-person, 31 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
396 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (21 men, 57 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 3.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 2.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 22.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |