Union township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (43% naturalized citizens)
Union township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 20% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1457
- Northeast: 63
- Midwest: 76
- South: 39
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 537
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 4
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 78
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,600
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 149 (16 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 119
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Construction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (20.9%)
- United States or American (14.9%)
- Polish (14.0%)
- English (13.9%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (57%)
- Germany (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 658 (81%)
- Carpooled: 87 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (18%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
5 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
98.6% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 43% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,658- In family households: 1,537 (419 male householders, 84 female householders)
412 spouses, 510 children (474 natural, 17 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 19 other relatives, 33 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 121 (65 male householders (55 living alone)), 41 female householders (36 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 214 2-persons, 121 3-persons, 104 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 91 1-person, 15 2-persons,
302 married couples with children.
51 single-parent households (31 men, 20 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
Here: | 6.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 3.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 24.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |