Hempfield township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Hempfield township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Hempfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 35976
- Northeast: 906
- Midwest: 1054
- South: 1510
- West: 331
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $108,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Hempfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 727 people in nursing homes
- 435 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 418 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 162 people in religious group quarters
- 36 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,053
- One, attached: 496
- Two: 317
- 3 or 4: 204
- 5 to 9: 284
- 10 to 19: 228
- 20 to 49: 267
- 50 or more: 350
- Mobile homes: 1,553
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,300
Housing units in Hempfield township with a mortgage: 6,934 (698 second mortgage, 1,268 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,656
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hempfield township:
- German (24.9%)
- Italian (20.9%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- English (7.5%)
- Polish (6.6%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
- Slovak (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (16%)
- India (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Russia (7%)
- Italy (6%)
- Mexico (6%)
- France (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,511 (88%)
- Carpooled: 1,422 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 58 (0%)
- Taxi: 44 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 297 (2%)
- Other means: 111 (1%)
- Worked at home: 392 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Hempfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 727 people in nursing homes
- 435 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 418 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 162 people in religious group quarters
- 36 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
96.1% of residents of Hempfield township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 38,842- In family households: 34,015 (9,966 male householders, 1,661 female householders)
10,046 spouses, 11,237 children (10,377 natural, 335 adopted, 525 stepchildren), 203 grandchildren, 142 brothers or sisters, 166 parents, 297 other relatives, 297 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,827 (1,748 male householders (1,434 living alone)), 2,560 female householders (2,440 living alone)), 519 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,869 (1,208 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,448 2-persons, 2,807 3-persons, 2,382 4-persons, 791 5-persons, 145 6-persons, 54 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,874 1-person, 361 2-persons, 47 3-persons, 17 4-persons, 9 5-persons,
6,696 married couples with children.
1,154 single-parent households (271 men, 883 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 503
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 225
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 367
| Here: | 20.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |