Raccoon township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Raccoon township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Raccoon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2850
- Northeast: 111
- Midwest: 129
- South: 200
- West: 83
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
58 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 929
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 18
- Mobile homes: 254
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,400
Housing units in Raccoon township with a mortgage: 495 (40 second mortgage, 106 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 210
- Construction (21%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Air transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Air transportation (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Raccoon township:
- German (20.0%)
- Italian (15.3%)
- United States or American (11.4%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- English (7.4%)
- Polish (5.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (47%)
- United Kingdom (27%)
- Venezuela (27%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,483 (88%)
- Carpooled: 136 (8%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 31 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
58 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
97.4% of residents of Raccoon township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,341- In family households: 3,100 (866 male householders, 107 female householders)
804 spouses, 1,176 children (1,097 natural, 19 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 86 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 20 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 241 (81 male householders (65 living alone)), 136 female householders (128 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 56 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 366 2-persons, 266 3-persons, 220 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 41 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 193 1-person, 24 2-persons,
716 married couples with children.
143 single-parent households (50 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 57
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 16.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |