Watts township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Watts township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Watts 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, 91% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1093
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 30
- South: 36
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
10 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 372
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 25
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 67
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,500
Housing units in Watts township with a mortgage: 153 (21 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 93
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Watts township:
- German (51.1%)
- United States or American (12.7%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- English (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- Polish (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Greece (33%)
- Other Western Europe (17%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (17%)
- Korea (17%)
- Canada (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 543 (84%)
- Carpooled: 79 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 9 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Coal or coke (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (2%)
10 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.4% of residents of Watts township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,200- In family households: 1,063 (290 male householders, 42 female householders)
305 spouses, 380 children (353 natural, 17 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 17 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 137 (63 male householders (45 living alone)), 46 female householders (41 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 10 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 133 2-persons, 75 3-persons, 78 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 86 1-person, 20 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
241 married couples with children.
39 single-parent households (8 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 14.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 38.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |