Tuscarora township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Tuscarora township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Tuscarora township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1025
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 18
- South: 41
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
18 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 442
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,200
Housing units in Tuscarora township with a mortgage: 146 (17 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 84
- Public administration (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tuscarora township:
- German (50.9%)
- United States or American (16.5%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- English (3.1%)
- Italian (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- European (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ireland (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 407 (78%)
- Carpooled: 89 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (55%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (13%)
- Coal or coke (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
18 people in unknown juvenile institutions
97.4% of residents of Tuscarora township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,104- In family households: 971 (286 male householders, 36 female householders)
274 spouses, 341 children (326 natural, 8 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 12 other relatives, 7 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 133 (69 male householders (61 living alone)), 42 female householders (34 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 15 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 149 2-persons, 69 3-persons, 53 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 95 1-person, 12 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
226 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (22 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
Here: | 0.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
Here: | 17.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 15.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |