Spring township, Centre County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (15% naturalized citizens)
| Spring township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Spring township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5297
- Northeast: 147
- Midwest: 141
- South: 322
- West: 114
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $48,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,021
- One, attached: 67
- Two: 149
- 3 or 4: 61
- 5 to 9: 106
- 10 to 19: 49
- Mobile homes: 106
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,800
Housing units in Spring township with a mortgage: 1,249 (148 second mortgage, 190 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 439
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (25%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring township:
- German (36.1%)
- United States or American (12.3%)
- English (10.3%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Italian (6.5%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Central Asia (75%)
- Germany (15%)
- Russia (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,656 (84%)
- Carpooled: 292 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 13 (0%)
- Walked: 89 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (0%)
- Worked at home: 95 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (41%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Wood (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.5% of residents of Spring township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (25% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,071- In family households: 5,243 (1,432 male householders, 304 female householders)
1,506 spouses, 1,798 children (1,673 natural, 63 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 86 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 30 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 828 (283 male householders (247 living alone)), 428 female householders (358 living alone)), 117 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 46 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 804 2-persons, 378 3-persons, 383 4-persons, 116 5-persons, 35 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 605 1-person, 98 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
1,156 married couples with children.
263 single-parent households (74 men, 189 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 71
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |