Spring township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Spring township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Spring township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1826
- Northeast: 47
- Midwest: 39
- South: 76
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $181,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 700
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 3
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,600
Housing units in Spring township with a mortgage: 297 (33 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 159
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring township:
- German (49.8%)
- United States or American (19.7%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- English (4.4%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (44%)
- Germany (22%)
- Guatemala (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 822 (83%)
- Carpooled: 112 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 40 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Wood (16%)
- Coal or coke (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.4% of residents of Spring township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,021- In family households: 1,836 (539 male householders, 73 female householders)
506 spouses, 646 children (598 natural, 8 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 10 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 185 (72 male householders (47 living alone)), 78 female householders (73 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 277 2-persons, 132 3-persons, 131 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 120 1-person, 28 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
461 married couples with children.
68 single-parent households (26 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 49
| Here: | 18.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 22.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |