Sandy Creek township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Sandy Creek township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Sandy Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 746
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 63
- South: 16
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
12 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 250
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 9
- Mobile homes: 84
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,300
Housing units in Sandy Creek township with a mortgage: 68 (6 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 51
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (27%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (21%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Waiters and waitresses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sandy Creek township:
- German (24.6%)
- English (16.2%)
- Irish (13.5%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- Italian (7.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.0%)
- Hungarian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 320 (81%)
- Carpooled: 36 (9%)
- Walked: 9 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 29 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Utility gas (20%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (7%)
- Other fuel (2%)
12 people in nursing homes
97.1% of residents of Sandy Creek township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 841- In family households: 748 (228 male householders, 20 female householders)
221 spouses, 243 children (202 natural, 3 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 2 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 93 (39 male householders (31 living alone)), 38 female householders (34 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 124 2-persons, 58 3-persons, 41 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 65 1-person, 8 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
161 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (8 men, 6 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 38.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |