Ligonier township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (88% naturalized citizens)
Ligonier township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Ligonier township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5865
- Northeast: 211
- Midwest: 378
- South: 309
- West: 113
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
91 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,098
- One, attached: 43
- Two: 24
- 3 or 4: 51
- 5 to 9: 25
- 10 to 19: 25
- Mobile homes: 280
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,700
Housing units in Ligonier township with a mortgage: 1,064 (34 second mortgage, 209 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 885
- Construction (18%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ligonier township:
- German (30.0%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- English (11.5%)
- Italian (9.7%)
- United States or American (7.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.8%)
- Polish (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (34%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (19%)
- Canada (12%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Mexico (10%)
- France (8%)
- Romania (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,590 (88%)
- Carpooled: 166 (6%)
- Taxi: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 96 (3%)
- Worked at home: 92 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Utility gas (19%)
- Wood (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
91 people in nursing homes
96.4% of residents of Ligonier township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (44% speak English very well, 56% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,880- In family households: 5,915 (1,838 male householders, 243 female householders)
1,835 spouses, 1,729 children (1,534 natural, 51 adopted, 144 stepchildren), 66 grandchildren, 31 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 23 other relatives, 111 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 965 (361 male householders (297 living alone)), 477 female householders (438 living alone)), 127 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 90 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,151 2-persons, 416 3-persons, 322 4-persons, 136 5-persons, 56 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 735 1-person, 87 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
1,156 married couples with children.
187 single-parent households (59 men, 128 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 105
Here: | 14.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 58
Here: | 17.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 60
Here: | 36.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |