Cooper township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (80% naturalized citizens)
Cooper township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Cooper township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2449
- Northeast: 120
- Midwest: 42
- South: 59
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
6 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 984
- One, attached: 23
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 191
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,700
Housing units in Cooper township with a mortgage: 329 (28 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 357
- Construction (19%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Health care (26%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cooper township:
- German (23.2%)
- Slovak (12.5%)
- United States or American (12.1%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Italian (6.3%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (40%)
- Germany (20%)
- Hungary (20%)
- Korea (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 949 (77%)
- Carpooled: 195 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 29 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (73%)
- Coal or coke (12%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (2%)
6 people in nursing homes
98.0% of residents of Cooper township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,725- In family households: 2,397 (660 male householders, 120 female householders)
667 spouses, 845 children (790 natural, 26 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 6 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 328 (125 male householders (103 living alone)), 146 female householders (135 living alone)), 57 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 307 2-persons, 203 3-persons, 181 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 24 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 238 1-person, 23 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
517 married couples with children.
129 single-parent households (37 men, 92 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
Here: | 3.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 5.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |