Tyrone township, Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (8% naturalized citizens)
| Tyrone township: | 5.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
58% of Tyrone 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, 58% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1743
- Northeast: 67
- Midwest: 42
- South: 284
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $80,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
10 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 564
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 22
- Mobile homes: 233
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,000
Housing units in Tyrone township with a mortgage: 264 (23 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 91
- Food (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tyrone township:
- German (43.5%)
- United States or American (20.9%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- English (4.0%)
- Polish (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (80%)
- Guatemala (15%)
- Venezuela (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 976 (80%)
- Carpooled: 132 (11%)
- Walked: 34 (3%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Wood (16%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
10 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
93.0% of residents of Tyrone township speak English at home.
6.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 37% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,263- In family households: 2,010 (525 male householders, 81 female householders)
537 spouses, 753 children (690 natural, 7 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 28 other relatives, 36 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 253 (116 male householders (78 living alone)), 57 female householders (39 living alone)), 80 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 10 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 232 2-persons, 131 3-persons, 143 4-persons, 86 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 117 1-person, 39 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 7 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
491 married couples with children.
81 single-parent households (29 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |