West Wheatfield township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (44% naturalized citizens)
West Wheatfield township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of West Wheatfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2168
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 61
- South: 66
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 676
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 254
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,900
Housing units in West Wheatfield township with a mortgage: 248 (18 second mortgage, 29 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 263
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Health care (29%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Extraction workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Wheatfield township:
- German (31.0%)
- United States or American (17.1%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- Italian (6.3%)
- Polish (5.6%)
- English (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (22%)
- Hungary (22%)
- Mexico (22%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 768 (81%)
- Carpooled: 145 (15%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 19 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.8% of residents of West Wheatfield township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (53% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,375- In family households: 2,176 (573 male householders, 147 female householders)
598 spouses, 721 children (681 natural, 11 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 10 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 199 (97 male householders (86 living alone)), 91 female householders (88 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 309 2-persons, 173 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 174 1-person, 14 2-persons,
395 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (37 men, 65 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 4.6% |
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: 18
Here: | 27.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |