Overfield township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
Overfield township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
66% of Overfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1208
- Northeast: 182
- Midwest: 50
- South: 37
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 694
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 25
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 90
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,800
Housing units in Overfield township with a mortgage: 228 (28 second mortgage, 38 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 118
- Construction (13%)
- Paper (8%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Overfield township:
- Irish (16.9%)
- Italian (15.5%)
- Polish (13.0%)
- German (12.3%)
- English (10.2%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Welsh (5.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Yugoslavia (29%)
- France (14%)
- Middle Africa (14%)
- Ecuador (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 638 (90%)
- Carpooled: 34 (5%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 23 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.0% of residents of Overfield township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,532- In family households: 1,334 (370 male householders, 75 female householders)
359 spouses, 470 children (431 natural, 19 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 13 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 198 (98 male householders (81 living alone)), 70 female householders (64 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 200 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 105 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 145 1-person, 20 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
291 married couples with children.
66 single-parent households (21 men, 45 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
Here: | 7.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
Here: | 9.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
Here: | 57.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |