Center township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (68% naturalized citizens)
Center township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4459
- Northeast: 91
- Midwest: 181
- South: 93
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
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: 0.0% of all households
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,668
- One, attached: 46
- Two: 77
- 3 or 4: 70
- 5 to 9: 47
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 213
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,500
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 568 (42 second mortgage, 63 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 739
- Construction (10%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- Italian (16.2%)
- German (14.7%)
- Polish (10.4%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Slovak (9.0%)
- United States or American (6.5%)
- English (6.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (48%)
- Greece (19%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Costa Rica (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,762 (83%)
- Carpooled: 218 (10%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 80 (4%)
- Worked at home: 61 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.7% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,867- In family households: 4,237 (1,159 male householders, 298 female householders)
1,167 spouses, 1,401 children (1,310 natural, 50 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 32 other relatives, 71 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 630 (260 male householders (221 living alone)), 306 female householders (281 living alone)), 64 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 716 2-persons, 326 3-persons, 285 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 42 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 502 1-person, 64 2-persons,
749 married couples with children.
183 single-parent households (47 men, 136 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 1.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
Here: | 4.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
Here: | 24.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |