Shenango township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Shenango township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Shenango township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6937
- Northeast: 53
- Midwest: 291
- South: 171
- West: 116
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $44,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Shenango township, Pennsylvania:
- 198 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 114 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,511
- One, attached: 46
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 31
- 5 to 9: 57
- 20 to 49: 31
- Mobile homes: 299
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,500
Housing units in Shenango township with a mortgage: 1,095 (110 second mortgage, 164 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 946
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shenango township:
- Italian (25.8%)
- German (24.4%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Polish (8.8%)
- English (7.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.8%)
- United States or American (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (42%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (20%)
- Germany (16%)
- Belarus (14%)
- Poland (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,055 (89%)
- Carpooled: 221 (6%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 33 (1%)
- Other means: 10 (0%)
- Worked at home: 109 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Shenango township, Pennsylvania:
- 198 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 114 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.8% of residents of Shenango township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,315- In family households: 6,620 (1,814 male householders, 398 female householders)
1,787 spouses, 2,292 children (2,078 natural, 14 adopted, 200 stepchildren), 79 grandchildren, 43 brothers or sisters, 52 parents, 79 other relatives, 76 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 695 (294 male householders (273 living alone)), 360 female householders (344 living alone)), 41 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 319 (312 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,015 2-persons, 494 3-persons, 468 4-persons, 180 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 617 1-person, 37 2-persons,
1,301 married couples with children.
302 single-parent households (87 men, 215 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 0.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 110
| Here: | 19.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 38
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |