Upper Turkeyfoot township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
Upper Turkeyfoot township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
79% of Upper Turkeyfoot township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1159
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 23
- South: 37
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $28,900
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: 0.2% of all households
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 642
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- Mobile homes: 126
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,300
Housing units in Upper Turkeyfoot township with a mortgage: 101 (6 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 125
- Construction (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Turkeyfoot township:
- German (49.1%)
- United States or American (19.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (7.2%)
- English (5.3%)
- Italian (5.1%)
- Irish (3.1%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Costa Rica (43%)
- Guatemala (29%)
- Honduras (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 379 (78%)
- Carpooled: 61 (13%)
- Walked: 14 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 29 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Coal or coke (17%)
- Wood (14%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.0% of residents of Upper Turkeyfoot township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,253- In family households: 1,177 (354 male householders, 27 female householders)
339 spouses, 413 children (397 natural, 9 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 10 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 76 (30 male householders (25 living alone)), 33 female householders (31 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 171 2-persons, 75 3-persons, 79 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 56 1-person, 3 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
279 married couples with children.
27 single-parent households (17 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
Here: | 6.4% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |