Gilpin township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Gilpin township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Gilpin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 97% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2402
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 48
- South: 51
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
People in group quarters in Gilpin township, Pennsylvania:
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 957
- One, attached: 20
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 3
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 96
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,000
Housing units in Gilpin township with a mortgage: 335 (22 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 394
- Metal and metal products (26%)
- Construction (11%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Health care (26%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gilpin township:
- German (30.1%)
- Italian (14.8%)
- Slovak (9.2%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- English (5.6%)
- Hungarian (4.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (53%)
- Germany (24%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (15%)
- Italy (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 966 (88%)
- Carpooled: 70 (6%)
- Walked: 31 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
People in group quarters in Gilpin township, Pennsylvania:
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 5 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in other group homes
97.5% of residents of Gilpin township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,572- In family households: 2,260 (672 male householders, 96 female householders)
692 spouses, 686 children (634 natural, 16 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 9 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 312 (141 male householders (118 living alone)), 129 female householders (120 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 15 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 358 2-persons, 180 3-persons, 158 4-persons, 59 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 238 1-person, 24 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
410 married couples with children.
72 single-parent households (26 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |