Rostraver township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Rostraver township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Rostraver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10434
- Northeast: 171
- Midwest: 347
- South: 401
- West: 64
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,543
- One, attached: 88
- Two: 87
- 3 or 4: 77
- 5 to 9: 52
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 67
- 50 or more: 33
- Mobile homes: 965
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Rostraver township with a mortgage: 1,681 (131 second mortgage, 356 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,331
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Health care (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rostraver township:
- Italian (23.5%)
- German (14.1%)
- Polish (9.8%)
- English (9.1%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Slovak (5.4%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (23%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Poland (11%)
- Ukraine (10%)
- Jamaica (8%)
- Italy (8%)
- Greece (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,522 (85%)
- Carpooled: 520 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 41 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 81 (2%)
- Other means: 12 (0%)
- Worked at home: 106 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
96.6% of residents of Rostraver township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,633- In family households: 10,402 (2,823 male householders, 660 female householders)
2,853 spouses, 3,614 children (3,456 natural, 34 adopted, 124 stepchildren), 136 grandchildren, 58 brothers or sisters, 97 parents, 72 other relatives, 89 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,231 (445 male householders (403 living alone)), 682 female householders (617 living alone)), 104 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,590 2-persons, 818 3-persons, 734 4-persons, 242 5-persons, 84 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,020 1-person, 107 2-persons,
2,046 married couples with children.
490 single-parent households (96 men, 394 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 90
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 1.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 86
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |