Porter township, Pike County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Porter township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
60% of Porter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 15% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 140
- Northeast: 204
- Midwest: 16
- South: 8
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 895
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Porter township with a mortgage: 65 (10 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 65
- Construction (11%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Waiters and waitresses (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Porter township:
- United States or American (17.4%)
- Italian (15.4%)
- German (13.4%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- Polish (9.6%)
- English (5.2%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 142 (77%)
- Carpooled: 20 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (2%)
- Walked: 6 (3%)
- Worked at home: 14 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Wood (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
91.7% of residents of Porter township speak English at home.
4.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 380- In family households: 320 (85 male householders, 27 female householders)
104 spouses, 90 children (74 natural, 13 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 60 (20 male householders (10 living alone)), 23 female householders (18 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 77 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 11 4-persons, 5 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28 1-person, 15 2-persons,
48 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (3 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 4
Here: | 57.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |