West Franklin township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| West Franklin township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of West Franklin 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, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1791
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 55
- South: 69
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
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: 607
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 26
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 149
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,800
Housing units in West Franklin township with a mortgage: 216 (16 second mortgage, 45 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 192
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Franklin township:
- German (39.0%)
- United States or American (11.4%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- English (10.6%)
- Italian (5.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- Slovak (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 732 (84%)
- Carpooled: 79 (9%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 25 (3%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
99.0% of residents of West Franklin township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,949- In family households: 1,754 (500 male householders, 87 female householders)
497 spouses, 579 children (551 natural, 6 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 17 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 195 (83 male householders (63 living alone)), 85 female householders (76 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 273 2-persons, 123 3-persons, 126 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 139 1-person, 26 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
350 married couples with children.
72 single-parent households (20 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 7.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 21.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |