Valley township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Valley township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
81% of Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 652
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 9
- South: 8
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $48,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 238
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 53
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Valley township with a mortgage: 67 (3 second mortgage, 18 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 76
- Utilities (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (40%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (12%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley township:
- German (34.7%)
- Irish (15.8%)
- English (11.2%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Polish (6.8%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (40%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 272 (83%)
- Carpooled: 26 (8%)
- Walked: 9 (3%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 13 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
98.1% of residents of Valley township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English well, 57% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 698- In family households: 641 (190 male householders, 26 female householders)
177 spouses, 218 children (204 natural, 7 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 6 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 57 (23 male householders (20 living alone)), 25 female householders (18 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 101 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 46 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 38 1-person, 10 2-persons,
122 married couples with children.
35 single-parent households (12 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |