Jefferson County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level between 2 and 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Moderate Potential
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Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 17.6%
(17.9% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 0.0% for Black residents, 0.0% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 0.0% for other race residents, 0.0% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
| This borough: | 2.3 people | | Pennsylvania: | 2.4 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This borough: | 65.1% | | Whole state: | 67.5% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This borough: | 4.6% | | Whole state: | 5.0% |
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Falls Creek, PA
Falls Creek compared to Pennsylvania state average:
- Median house value below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Renting percentage below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in significantly above state average.
- House age significantly above state average.
- Number of college students significantly below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (96%)
- Electricity (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Jefferson County Pennsylvania:
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Religion statistics for Falls Creek (based on Jefferson County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 54.53%
| Here |  | 54.5% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Catholic Church | United Methodist Church | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Christian and Missionary Alliance |
| Adherents | 39.3% | 26.0% | 9.3% | 3.6% | 2.7% |
| Congregations | 9.1% | 34.1% | 10.6% | 6.1% | 4.5% |
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| Name | Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) | Assemblies of God | United Church of Christ | Old Order Amish | Other |
| Adherents | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.2% | 1.9% | 10.0% |
| Congregations | 2.3% | 2.3% | 2.3% | 5.3% | 23.5% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 11 | Here: | 2.44 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 2.04 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of supercenters and club stores: 1 | This county: | 0.22 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 0.09 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 3 | Jefferson County: | 0.67 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 0.88 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 12 | This county: | 2.66 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 2.52 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 28 | Jefferson County: | 6.21 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 7.12 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | Jefferson County: | 10.0% | | State: | 9.1% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate: | This county: | 11.7% | | Pennsylvania: | 11.5% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $634 |
| Streets and Highways |
2 | $4,756 | $28,536 | 0 | $0 |
| Other and Unallocable |
1 | $2,480 | $29,760 | 0 | $0 |
| Totals for Government |
3 | $7,236 | $28,944 | 1 | $634 |
Falls Creek government finances in 2002:
- Charges - All Other: $2,000 ($1.93)
Solid Waste Management: $0 ($0.00)
- Current Operations - Water Utilities: $182,000 ($175.34)
Regular Highways: $122,000 ($117.53)
Central Staff Services: $39,000 ($37.57)
General - Other: $31,000 ($29.87)
Fire Protection: $6,000 ($5.78)
Financial Administration: $6,000 ($5.78)
Judicial and Legal Services: $3,000 ($2.89)
General Public Buildings: $2,000 ($1.93)
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $1,000 ($0.96)
Housing & Community Development: $1,000 ($0.96)
- General - Interest on Debt: $39,000 ($37.57)
- Intergovernmental to Local NEC - General: $3,000 ($2.89)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $782,000 ($753.37)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Other, NEC: $759,000 ($731.21)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $23,000 ($22.16)
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $13,000 ($12.52)
General Revenue, NEC: $5,000 ($4.82)
- Other Capital Outlay - Regular Highways: $5,000 ($4.82)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $234,000 ($225.43)
- Revenue - Water Utilities: $180,000 ($173.41)
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $19,000 ($18.30)
All Other: $13,000 ($12.52)
- Tax - Property: $78,000 ($75.14)
Individual Income: $53,000 ($51.06)
NEC: $19,000 ($18.30)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $123,000 ($118.50)
4.57% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($28,958 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 4.57% | | Pennsylvania average: | 4.99% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
4.97% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($28,275 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 4.97% | | Pennsylvania average: | 5.08% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Falls Creek:
- WCED (1420 AM; 5 kW; DU BOIS, PA; Owner: VOX ALLEGANY, LLC)
- WECZ (1540 AM; daytime; 5 kW; PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA)
- KDKA (1020 AM; 50 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WCPA (900 AM; 3 kW; CLEARFIELD, PA; Owner: CLEARFIELD BROADCASTERS, INC.)
- WCCS (1160 AM; 10 kW; HOMER CITY, PA; Owner: RENDA RADIO, INC.)
- WPHB (1260 AM; 5 kW; PHILIPSBURG, PA)
- WCBM (680 AM; 50 kW; BALTIMORE, MD; Owner: WCBM MARYLAND, INC.)
- WWVA (1170 AM; 53 kW; WHEELING, WV; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WWKB (1520 AM; 50 kW; BUFFALO, NY; Owner: ENTERCOM BUFFALO LICENSE, LLC)
- WLYE (850 AM; 10 kW; JOHNSTOWN, PA; Owner: FOREVER OF JOHNSTOWN, INC.)
- WKNR (850 AM; 50 kW; CLEVELAND, OH; Owner: CARON BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WTAM (1100 AM; 50 kW; CLEVELAND, OH; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WHAM (1180 AM; 50 kW; ROCHESTER, NY; Owner: CITICASTERS LICENSES, L.P.)
Strongest FM radio stations in Falls Creek:
- WDSN (106.5 FM; REYNOLDSVILLE, PA; Owner: PRIORITY COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WDBA (107.3 FM; DU BOIS, PA; Owner: DU BOIS AREA BROADCASTING CO., INC.)
- WOWQ (102.1 FM; DU BOIS, PA; Owner: FIRST MEDIA RADIO, LLC)
- W221BD (92.1 FM; DU BOIS, PA; Owner: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WOKW (102.9 FM; CURWENSVILLE, PA; Owner: RAYMARK BROADCASTING CO., INC.)
- WQYX (93.1 FM; CLEARFIELD, PA; Owner: CLEARFIELD BROADCASTERS, INC.)
- WJNG (100.5 FM; JOHNSONBURG, PA; Owner: STRATTAN BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WMKX (105.5 FM; BROOKVILLE, PA; Owner: STRATTAN BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WKBI-FM (93.9 FM; ST. MARYS, PA; Owner: THE ELK-CAMERON BROADCASTING CO.)
- WYTR (103.3 FM; BROOKVILLE, PA; Owner: RENDA RADIO, INC.)
- WUBZ-FM (105.9 FM; PHILIPSBURG, PA; Owner: MOSHANNON VALLEY BROADCASTING, INC.)
- WDDH (97.5 FM; ST. MARYS, PA; Owner: LAUREL MEDIA, INC.)
- WMAJ-FM (104.9 FM; HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA; Owner: FOREVER OF PA, LLC)
- WPSU-FM (91.5 FM; STATE COLLEGE, PA; Owner: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WPSB (90.1 FM; KANE, PA; Owner: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WPXZ-FM (104.1 FM; PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA; Owner: RENDA RADIO, INC.)
- W294AE (106.7 FM; ALTOONA, PA; Owner: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
- WGMR (101.1 FM; TYRONE, PA; Owner: CARY H. SIMPSON DBA ALLEGHENY MOUNTAIN NETWORK)
- WJHT (107.9 FM; PORT MATILDA, PA; Owner: DAME BROADCASTING, LLC)
- WFGY (98.1 FM; ALTOONA, PA; Owner: FOREVER OF PA, LLC)
TV broadcast stations around Falls Creek:
- WPSX-TV (Channel 3; CLEARFIELD, PA; Owner: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
- W45BT (Channel 45; BROOKVILLE, PA; Owner: CORNERSTONE TELEVISION, INC.)
Falls Creek fatal accident list:
Aug 5, 1982 06:99 PM, 00650, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1
Sep 13, 1979 07:00 PM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 1
Total length: 1 meters (3ft)
Total average daily traffic: 2,504
Total average daily truck traffic: 125
Total future (year 2023) average daily traffic: 2,960
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers: 1 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers in Falls Creek)
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 21 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 3 - Dubois Remote 4000 E Of Rt 219 And 2 Mi Ne (Lat: 41.170889 Lon: -78.769472), Call Sign: KXH363
Assigned Frequencies: 155.475 MHz, 154.755 MHz, 155.505 MHz, 155.670 MHz Grant Date: 04/23/2002, Expiration Date: 07/14/2012
Registrant: State Police Communications Division, 7820 Allentown Blvd., Harrisburg, PA 17112-3763, Phone: (717) 540-5020, Fax: (717) 540-5030, Email:
- 405 Main St (Lat: 41.145056 Lon: -78.807528), Call Sign: KNAI782, Licensee ID: L00110377
Assigned Frequencies: 151.745 MHz Grant Date: 04/27/1998, Expiration Date: 04/26/2003, Cancellation Date: 07/27/2003
Registrant: Laird K Snyder, 405 Main St, Falls Creek, PA 15840 - CLEA07, Clea07, Off Game Land Road T402 (Lat: 41.170889 Lon: -78.769194), Type: Tower, Structure height: 100.6 m, Overall height: 106.7 m, Call Sign: WPZT913
Assigned Frequencies: 866.225 MHz, 866.612 MHz Grant Date: 03/12/2004, Expiration Date: 03/12/2014, Certifier: Donald R Appleby
Registrant: Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, 2605 Interstate Drive, Suite 135, Harrisburg, PA 17110, Phone: (717) 772-8024, Fax: (717) 772-8097, Email:
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 4 - FALLS CREEK PA, Approximately 1/3 Mile North Of Legislative Route 33038 (Lat: 41.166389 Lon: -78.813611), Type: Tower, Structure height: 122.8 m, Overall height: 127.1 m, Call Sign: WPNN580
Assigned Frequencies: 6315.84 MHz, 6256.54 MHz Grant Date: 03/31/2009, Expiration Date: 05/20/2019
Registrant: Verizon Wireless, 1120 Sanctuary Pkwy, #150 Gasa5reg, Alpharetta, GA 30009-7630, Phone: (770) 797-1070, Fax: (770) 797-1036, Email:
- CLEA07, Off Game Land Road T402 (Lat: 41.170889 Lon: -78.769194), Type: Tower, Structure height: 100.6 m, Overall height: 106.7 m, Call Sign: WPRR396, Licensee ID: L00098005
Assigned Frequencies: 6730.62 MHz, 6845.00 MHz, 6765.00 MHz Grant Date: 12/22/2000, Expiration Date: 12/22/2010, Certifier: Donald R Appleby Jr
Registrant: Pennsylvania, Commonwealth Of - CLEA07, Off Game Land Road T402 (Lat: 41.170889 Lon: -78.769194), Type: Tower, Structure height: 100.6 m, Overall height: 106.7 m, Call Sign: WQCY593
Assigned Frequencies: 6718.75 MHz Grant Date: 06/23/2005, Expiration Date: 09/30/2005, Cancellation Date: 01/07/2006, Certifier: Charles K Leto
Registrant: Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, 2605 Interstate Drive, Suite 135, Harrisburg, PA 17110, Phone: (717) 772-8024, Fax: (717) 772-8097, Email:
- FALLS CREEK, Lat: 41.144611 Lon: -78.808194, Call Sign: WQHT682
Assigned Frequencies: 956.393 MHz Grant Date: 11/02/2007, Expiration Date: 11/02/2017, Certifier: Lugene Inzana
Registrant: Sensus, 450 N Gallatin Ave, Uniontown, PA 15401, Phone: (800) 637-3748, Fax: (800) 888-2403, Email:
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 9 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Falls Creek)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 1 - Aircraft: STARDUSTER II SA-300 (Category: Land, Seats: 2, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 105 mph), Engine: LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 17FP , Serial Number: 1130, Year manufactured: 1971, Airworthiness Date: 01/31/1979
Registrant (Individual): Michael L Smith, Rd 1, Falls Creek, PA 15840
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
Incident types - Falls Creek
See full 2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System statistics for Falls Creek, PA
| Most common first names in Falls Creek, PA among deceased individuals |
| Name | Count | Lived (average) |
| William | 27 | 72.4 years |
| John | 20 | 69.9 years |
| Mary | 16 | 76.5 years |
| Robert | 16 | 71.7 years |
| James | 14 | 72.5 years |
| Charles | 12 | 64.7 years |
| Ruth | 12 | 77.3 years |
| Donald | 10 | 62.8 years |
| George | 9 | 81.0 years |
| Frank | 8 | 80.7 years |
| Most common last names in Falls Creek, PA among deceased individuals |
| Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
| Smith | 25 | 75.8 years |
| Tudor | 7 | 73.0 years |
| Miller | 7 | 72.0 years |
| Cable | 6 | 75.8 years |
| Snell | 6 | 71.5 years |
| Snyder | 6 | 71.3 years |
| Thompson | 5 | 78.2 years |
| Senior | 5 | 79.8 years |
| Weible | 5 | 82.8 years |
| Jones | 5 | 73.6 years |
Businesses in Falls Creek, PA
- FedEx: 1
- Lane Furniture: 1
- UPS: 1
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