Oliver township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (52% naturalized citizens)
Oliver township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Oliver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1864
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 58
- South: 61
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 520
- One, attached: 52
- Two: 30
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 64
- 10 to 19: 4
- 20 to 49: 32
- Mobile homes: 126
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,400
Housing units in Oliver township with a mortgage: 247 (48 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 166
- Construction (18%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oliver township:
- German (47.3%)
- United States or American (12.9%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
- English (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Slovene (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (61%)
- Germany (39%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 710 (76%)
- Carpooled: 175 (19%)
- Walked: 25 (3%)
- Worked at home: 29 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (54%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (2%)
96.3% of residents of Oliver township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 21% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,060- In family households: 1,794 (383 male householders, 192 female householders)
403 spouses, 666 children (602 natural, 35 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 53 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 13 other relatives, 72 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 266 (80 male householders (61 living alone)), 138 female householders (118 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 240 2-persons, 153 3-persons, 112 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 179 1-person, 35 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
335 married couples with children.
161 single-parent households (47 men, 114 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 7
Here: | 13.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |