Tuscarora township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Tuscarora township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Tuscarora township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 95% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1071
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 20
- South: 51
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 464
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 4
- 10 to 19: 13
- Mobile homes: 163
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Tuscarora township with a mortgage: 95 (10 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 95
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Wood products (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Food (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Woodworkers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tuscarora township:
- United States or American (37.7%)
- German (28.4%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Swiss (4.8%)
- English (4.4%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 346 (68%)
- Carpooled: 98 (19%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 44 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Wood (32%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
94.9% of residents of Tuscarora township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
4.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,163- In family households: 1,017 (282 male householders, 31 female householders)
266 spouses, 372 children (339 natural, 0 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 12 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 146 (58 male householders (46 living alone)), 53 female householders (42 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 128 2-persons, 81 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 88 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
200 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (26 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
| Here: | 18.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |