Taylor township, Blair County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Taylor township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
79% of Taylor township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2093
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 29
- South: 73
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 759
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 10
- Mobile homes: 132
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,900
Housing units in Taylor township with a mortgage: 298 (32 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 245
- Construction (14%)
- Paper (11%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Rail transportation (3%)
- Wood products (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Paper (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Taylor township:
- German (50.6%)
- United States or American (15.6%)
- English (7.0%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- Italian (4.9%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- Swedish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Jamaica (80%)
- Vietnam (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 942 (85%)
- Carpooled: 57 (5%)
- Bicycle: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Worked at home: 81 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (71%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Wood (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.2% of residents of Taylor township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (37% speak English very well, 56% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,239- In family households: 2,062 (622 male householders, 68 female householders)
618 spouses, 678 children (627 natural, 27 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 15 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 177 (75 male householders (68 living alone)), 87 female householders (78 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 334 2-persons, 144 3-persons, 132 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 146 1-person, 16 2-persons,
413 married couples with children.
58 single-parent households (23 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 10.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 34.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |