Frankstown township, Blair County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Frankstown township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Frankstown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6496
- Northeast: 428
- Midwest: 185
- South: 223
- West: 106
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $108,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
152 people in nursing homes
3 people in homes for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,498
- One, attached: 64
- Two: 41
- 3 or 4: 67
- 5 to 9: 53
- 10 to 19: 144
- 20 to 49: 18
- 50 or more: 35
- Mobile homes: 116
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,600
Housing units in Frankstown township with a mortgage: 1,334 (187 second mortgage, 183 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 784
- Health care (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Paper (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Physicians and surgeons (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Frankstown township:
- German (42.9%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- Italian (8.4%)
- United States or American (8.4%)
- English (6.5%)
- Polish (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (30%)
- Korea (8%)
- Pakistan (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Laos (5%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,960 (87%)
- Carpooled: 263 (8%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 144 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (51%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (32%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
152 people in nursing homes
3 people in homes for the physically handicapped
94.8% of residents of Frankstown township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,539- In family households: 6,838 (1,903 male householders, 335 female householders)
1,971 spouses, 2,379 children (2,245 natural, 59 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 48 parents, 46 other relatives, 87 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 701 (279 male householders (240 living alone)), 361 female householders (336 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 155 (152 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 987 2-persons, 488 3-persons, 499 4-persons, 201 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 576 1-person, 64 2-persons,
1,561 married couples with children.
215 single-parent households (68 men, 147 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 106
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 52
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 93
| Here: | 46.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |