Wood township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
Wood township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Wood 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, 97% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 647
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 12
- South: 21
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 192
- One, attached: 111
- Two: 2
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 71
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,900
Housing units in Wood township with a mortgage: 62 (10 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 93
- Machinery (35%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Leather and allied products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Leather and allied products (24%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wood township:
- German (26.2%)
- United States or American (20.3%)
- Italian (10.8%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Welsh (4.4%)
- English (4.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 177 (68%)
- Carpooled: 78 (30%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 3 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (79%)
- Wood (10%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
98.5% of residents of Wood township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 705- In family households: 627 (188 male householders, 19 female householders)
186 spouses, 205 children (198 natural, 1 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 78 (39 male householders (35 living alone)), 30 female householders (25 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 88 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 55 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 60 1-person, 9 2-persons,
118 married couples with children.
52 single-parent households (19 men, 33 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 8.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 5.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 13.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |