Metal township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Metal township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Metal township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1436
- Northeast: 42
- Midwest: 19
- South: 187
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 590
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 2
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 171
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,100
Housing units in Metal township with a mortgage: 171 (20 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 149
- Construction (20%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Metal township:
- German (39.1%)
- United States or American (24.2%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- English (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (31%)
- Other Northern Europe (19%)
- Canada (19%)
- Germany (13%)
- Korea (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 522 (69%)
- Carpooled: 129 (17%)
- Walked: 27 (4%)
- Other means: 15 (2%)
- Worked at home: 62 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (54%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (19%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
93.9% of residents of Metal township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
5.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (34% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,721- In family households: 1,511 (403 male householders, 78 female householders)
391 spouses, 532 children (471 natural, 26 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 17 other relatives, 63 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 210 (88 male householders (71 living alone)), 84 female householders (66 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 217 2-persons, 117 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 137 1-person, 32 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
319 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (24 men, 40 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 10.2% |
| 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: 2
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |