Buffalo township, Union County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (90% naturalized citizens)
Buffalo township: | 1.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Buffalo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% 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: 2746
- Northeast: 146
- Midwest: 108
- South: 89
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $150,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
22 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 894
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 23
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 12
- 20 to 49: 23
- Mobile homes: 137
Median worth of mobile homes: $60,000
Housing units in Buffalo township with a mortgage: 329 (24 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 239
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Health care (20%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (17%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (12%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Woodworkers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (19%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buffalo township:
- German (42.0%)
- United States or American (23.9%)
- English (5.1%)
- Swiss (4.4%)
- Italian (3.1%)
- Irish (3.0%)
- British (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Central Asia (45%)
- Ukraine (27%)
- Jamaica (18%)
- El Salvador (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,043 (76%)
- Carpooled: 186 (14%)
- Bicycle: 17 (1%)
- Walked: 56 (4%)
- Worked at home: 68 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Coal or coke (11%)
- Wood (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
22 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
87.4% of residents of Buffalo township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 36% don't speak English at all).
11.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,189- In family households: 2,872 (779 male householders, 109 female householders)
762 spouses, 1,074 children (1,013 natural, 20 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 65 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 31 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 317 (136 male householders (115 living alone)), 149 female householders (142 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 26 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 397 2-persons, 170 3-persons, 172 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 257 1-person, 28 2-persons,
763 married couples with children.
116 single-parent households (28 men, 88 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 134
Here: | 28.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 34
Here: | 21.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 32.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |