Wilkins township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (77% naturalized citizens)
| Wilkins township: | 4.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Wilkins township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5788
- Northeast: 215
- Midwest: 265
- South: 271
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $79,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,390
- One, attached: 82
- Two: 82
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 82
- 10 to 19: 114
- 20 to 49: 151
- 50 or more: 485
Housing units in Wilkins township with a mortgage: 1,131 (109 second mortgage, 201 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,018
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wilkins township:
- Italian (22.2%)
- German (16.8%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- English (7.8%)
- Polish (5.5%)
- Slovak (3.7%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (17%)
- Germany (14%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- India (8%)
- Greece (6%)
- Iran (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,735 (88%)
- Carpooled: 185 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 92 (3%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 69 (2%)
- Worked at home: 37 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (92%)
- Electricity (8%)
92.7% of residents of Wilkins township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 39% speak English not well).
4.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,917- In family households: 5,568 (1,468 male householders, 543 female householders)
1,618 spouses, 1,635 children (1,554 natural, 28 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 107 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 61 parents, 67 other relatives, 54 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,349 (545 male householders (453 living alone)), 681 female householders (644 living alone)), 123 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,125 2-persons, 412 3-persons, 325 4-persons, 106 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,097 1-person, 129 2-persons,
888 married couples with children.
204 single-parent households (41 men, 163 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 226
| Here: | 41.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 92
| Here: | 30.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 57
| Here: | 19.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |