South Franklin township, Washington County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| South Franklin township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of South Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3057
- Northeast: 54
- Midwest: 193
- South: 386
- West: 83
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,053
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 8
- 10 to 19: 26
- Mobile homes: 344
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,400
Housing units in South Franklin township with a mortgage: 430 (35 second mortgage, 44 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 329
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (12%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Franklin township:
- German (25.4%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- Italian (11.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (9.7%)
- English (8.1%)
- United States or American (8.1%)
- Polish (6.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (59%)
- United Kingdom (41%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,557 (88%)
- Carpooled: 142 (8%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 55 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Wood (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
98.5% of residents of South Franklin township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 49% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,795- In family households: 3,512 (923 male householders, 199 female householders)
953 spouses, 1,231 children (1,092 natural, 12 adopted, 127 stepchildren), 43 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 47 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 283 (101 male householders (81 living alone)), 149 female householders (141 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 445 2-persons, 278 3-persons, 250 4-persons, 98 5-persons, 51 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 222 1-person, 20 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
789 married couples with children.
163 single-parent households (53 men, 110 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
| Here: | 21.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |