West Salem township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| West Salem township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of West Salem township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3001
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 273
- South: 117
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
241 people in nursing homes
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,114
- One, attached: 62
- Two: 6
- 5 to 9: 20
- Mobile homes: 239
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,100
Housing units in West Salem township with a mortgage: 345 (16 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 426
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (14%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (14%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other financial specialists (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Salem township:
- German (30.3%)
- English (11.8%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- Italian (8.4%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.0%)
- Hungarian (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guyana (70%)
- Thailand (30%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,237 (85%)
- Carpooled: 162 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Worked at home: 25 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
241 people in nursing homes
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.0% of residents of West Salem township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,299- In family households: 2,952 (876 male householders, 104 female householders)
895 spouses, 893 children (775 natural, 36 adopted, 82 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 29 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 42 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 347 (148 male householders (116 living alone)), 175 female householders (175 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 266 (232 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 472 2-persons, 206 3-persons, 199 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 291 1-person, 32 2-persons,
560 married couples with children.
112 single-parent households (38 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
| Here: | 9.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 31
| Here: | 29.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |