Wolf Creek township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Wolf Creek township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Wolf Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% 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: 650
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 40
- South: 20
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 248
- Mobile homes: 52
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Wolf Creek township with a mortgage: 74 (17 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 68
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wolf Creek township:
- German (22.8%)
- United States or American (17.3%)
- Irish (13.0%)
- English (10.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (9.8%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 315 (83%)
- Carpooled: 20 (5%)
- Walked: 7 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (2%)
- Worked at home: 30 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Utility gas (24%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Wood (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
99.7% of residents of Wolf Creek township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 730- In family households: 635 (186 male householders, 21 female householders)
195 spouses, 213 children (198 natural, 5 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 7 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 95 (43 male householders (32 living alone)), 26 female householders (25 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 94 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 57 1-person, 6 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
131 married couples with children.
30 single-parent households (8 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 8.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 7.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 23.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |