Unity township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Unity township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Unity township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 18031
- Northeast: 631
- Midwest: 806
- South: 995
- West: 222
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $108,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Unity township, Pennsylvania:
- 858 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 317 people in nursing homes
- 116 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 95 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,165
- One, attached: 494
- Two: 180
- 3 or 4: 156
- 5 to 9: 244
- 10 to 19: 109
- 20 to 49: 156
- 50 or more: 8
- Mobile homes: 818
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,100
Housing units in Unity township with a mortgage: 3,159 (310 second mortgage, 579 home equity loan, 68 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,120
- Construction (9%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Unity township:
- German (28.1%)
- Italian (17.0%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Polish (7.5%)
- Slovak (7.2%)
- English (6.5%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (32%)
- United Kingdom (21%)
- India (11%)
- Philippines (9%)
- Mexico (7%)
- Austria (3%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,946 (85%)
- Carpooled: 615 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 10 (0%)
- Taxi: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 466 (5%)
- Other means: 32 (0%)
- Worked at home: 245 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Unity township, Pennsylvania:
- 858 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 317 people in nursing homes
- 116 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 95 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in religious group quarters
96.9% of residents of Unity township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (16% speak English very well, 67% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 19,646- In family households: 17,260 (4,879 male householders, 835 female householders)
4,947 spouses, 5,849 children (5,399 natural, 120 adopted, 330 stepchildren), 165 grandchildren, 132 brothers or sisters, 100 parents, 97 other relatives, 256 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,386 (843 male householders (720 living alone)), 1,330 female householders (1,249 living alone)), 213 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,390 (363 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,730 2-persons, 1,213 3-persons, 1,168 4-persons, 469 5-persons, 106 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,969 1-person, 181 2-persons, 23 3-persons,
3,702 married couples with children.
567 single-parent households (174 men, 393 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 371
| Here: | 16.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 155
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 692
| Here: | 52.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |