Wayne township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
Wayne township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Wayne township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1509
- Northeast: 101
- Midwest: 80
- South: 45
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 556
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 111
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,100
Housing units in Wayne township with a mortgage: 155 (30 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 113
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wayne township:
- German (18.8%)
- United States or American (18.0%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- Italian (7.5%)
- English (7.4%)
- Polish (7.3%)
- Swedish (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (47%)
- Italy (16%)
- Sweden (11%)
- Pakistan (11%)
- Philippines (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 669 (81%)
- Carpooled: 104 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 31 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Wood (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.5% of residents of Wayne township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,760- In family households: 1,608 (436 male householders, 71 female householders)
444 spouses, 549 children (510 natural, 10 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 21 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 152 (60 male householders (43 living alone)), 66 female householders (59 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 225 2-persons, 102 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 102 1-person, 20 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
366 married couples with children.
65 single-parent households (24 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
Here: | 11.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 3.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 27.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |