West Mead township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (76% naturalized citizens)
| West Mead township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of West Mead township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4367
- Northeast: 228
- Midwest: 214
- South: 225
- West: 103
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,797
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 52
- 3 or 4: 36
- 5 to 9: 98
- 10 to 19: 135
- Mobile homes: 47
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,400
Housing units in West Mead township with a mortgage: 924 (83 second mortgage, 188 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 571
- Machinery (18%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (20%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Mead township:
- German (27.8%)
- Italian (11.8%)
- English (11.4%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- United States or American (9.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.1%)
- Polish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (41%)
- United Kingdom (34%)
- Korea (12%)
- Hungary (7%)
- Indonesia (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,159 (86%)
- Carpooled: 300 (12%)
- Walked: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 42 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
98.0% of residents of West Mead township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.2% 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: 5,245- In family households: 4,506 (1,307 male householders, 229 female householders)
1,295 spouses, 1,468 children (1,338 natural, 37 adopted, 93 stepchildren), 38 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 53 other relatives, 89 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 739 (220 male householders (122 living alone)), 365 female householders (352 living alone)), 154 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 723 2-persons, 356 3-persons, 286 4-persons, 126 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 474 1-person, 80 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
942 married couples with children.
257 single-parent households (52 men, 205 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 146
| Here: | 25.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
| Here: | 24.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |