Center township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9551
- Northeast: 382
- Midwest: 559
- South: 617
- West: 73
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
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
People in group quarters in Center township, Pennsylvania:
- 228 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 102 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,699
- One, attached: 93
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 201
- 5 to 9: 83
- 10 to 19: 33
- 20 to 49: 126
- Mobile homes: 142
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,800
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 1,876 (186 second mortgage, 357 home equity loan, 43 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,335
- Air transportation (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- Italian (24.1%)
- German (21.0%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- English (5.6%)
- Polish (5.2%)
- Slovak (5.1%)
- United States or American (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (24%)
- Germany (13%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- India (9%)
- Other Eastern Africa (8%)
- Honduras (7%)
- Indonesia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,881 (86%)
- Carpooled: 471 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 111 (2%)
- Other means: 25 (0%)
- Worked at home: 135 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Center township, Pennsylvania:
- 228 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 102 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in religious group quarters
94.2% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
3.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (17% speak English very well, 45% speak English well, 38% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (36% speak English very well, 48% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,153- In family households: 10,067 (2,855 male householders, 441 female householders)
2,890 spouses, 3,417 children (3,276 natural, 53 adopted, 88 stepchildren), 175 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 67 parents, 123 other relatives, 88 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,086 (331 male householders (285 living alone)), 614 female householders (548 living alone)), 141 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 339 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,459 2-persons, 761 3-persons, 713 4-persons, 274 5-persons, 72 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 833 1-person, 106 2-persons, 6 5-persons,
2,116 married couples with children.
309 single-parent households (64 men, 245 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 104
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 132
| Here: | 18.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |