Somerset township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Somerset township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Somerset township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8267
- Northeast: 192
- Midwest: 301
- South: 360
- West: 99
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Somerset township, Pennsylvania:
- 373 people in state prisons
- 106 people in nursing homes
- 19 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,219
- One, attached: 82
- Two: 126
- 3 or 4: 66
- 5 to 9: 46
- 10 to 19: 28
- Mobile homes: 1,132
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,200
Housing units in Somerset township with a mortgage: 913 (58 second mortgage, 192 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 771
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Health care (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Somerset township:
- German (45.8%)
- United States or American (13.8%)
- Italian (6.5%)
- English (6.2%)
- Irish (5.1%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (31%)
- Poland (24%)
- Guatemala (14%)
- Italy (12%)
- Cuba (12%)
- Mexico (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,370 (81%)
- Carpooled: 528 (13%)
- Taxi: 23 (1%)
- Walked: 43 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 171 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Somerset township, Pennsylvania:
- 373 people in state prisons
- 106 people in nursing homes
- 19 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.8% of residents of Somerset township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 22% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,798- In family households: 7,775 (2,202 male householders, 378 female householders)
2,264 spouses, 2,602 children (2,401 natural, 90 adopted, 111 stepchildren), 95 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 58 other relatives, 115 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,023 (392 male householders (334 living alone)), 503 female householders (447 living alone)), 128 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 521 (478 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,144 2-persons, 622 3-persons, 546 4-persons, 190 5-persons, 35 6-persons, 43 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 781 1-person, 108 2-persons, 6 5-persons,
1,660 married couples with children.
352 single-parent households (109 men, 243 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 100
| Here: | 11.0% |
| 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: 21
| Here: | 16.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |