Somerset township, Washington County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Somerset township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Somerset township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2365
- Northeast: 49
- Midwest: 96
- South: 134
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 874
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 14
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 210
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,800
Housing units in Somerset township with a mortgage: 276 (27 second mortgage, 72 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 272
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Somerset township:
- German (26.1%)
- Italian (14.6%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- English (9.3%)
- Polish (8.5%)
- United States or American (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (63%)
- Netherlands (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,198 (88%)
- Carpooled: 109 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 29 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (32%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.6% of residents of Somerset township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (14% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 45% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,695- In family households: 2,407 (682 male householders, 135 female householders)
669 spouses, 753 children (695 natural, 3 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 43 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 288 (97 male householders (79 living alone)), 143 female householders (123 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 377 2-persons, 199 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 202 1-person, 29 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
456 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (20 men, 57 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 14.8% |
| 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: 5
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |