Tyrone township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (13% naturalized citizens)
| Tyrone township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Tyrone township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1676
- Northeast: 61
- Midwest: 33
- South: 44
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
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: 599
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 27
- 10 to 19: 11
- 20 to 49: 18
- Mobile homes: 135
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,700
Housing units in Tyrone township with a mortgage: 208 (24 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 161
- Construction (16%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tyrone township:
- German (46.8%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- United States or American (10.3%)
- English (6.8%)
- Italian (4.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Dutch (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (40%)
- Canada (20%)
- Germany (13%)
- Vietnam (13%)
- Mexico (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 690 (77%)
- Carpooled: 122 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 32 (4%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (53%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (14%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.1% of residents of Tyrone township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,858- In family households: 1,668 (463 male householders, 76 female householders)
475 spouses, 555 children (504 natural, 25 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 20 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 190 (75 male householders (63 living alone)), 94 female householders (91 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 255 2-persons, 125 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 154 1-person, 10 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
350 married couples with children.
85 single-parent households (38 men, 47 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |