Carroll township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (45% naturalized citizens)
Carroll township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Carroll township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 91% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4731
- Northeast: 93
- Midwest: 41
- South: 125
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households


Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,328
- One, attached: 32
- Two: 42
- 5 to 9: 52
- Mobile homes: 582
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,300
Housing units in Carroll township with a mortgage: 603 (50 second mortgage, 115 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 283
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Carroll township:
- German (50.0%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (5.3%)
- Italian (3.9%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (73%)
- France (14%)
- Germany (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,244 (81%)
- Carpooled: 365 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 18 (1%)
- Walked: 49 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 64 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (9%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.1% of residents of Carroll township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,095- In family households: 4,549 (1,203 male householders, 270 female householders)
1,235 spouses, 1,639 children (1,545 natural, 17 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 30 other relatives, 114 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 546 (247 male householders (159 living alone)), 179 female householders (148 living alone)), 120 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 614 2-persons, 358 3-persons, 347 4-persons, 103 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 307 1-person, 110 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
1,040 married couples with children.
236 single-parent households (84 men, 152 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 2.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
Here: | 4.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 7.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |