Bigler township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (14% naturalized citizens)
| Bigler township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Bigler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1228
- Northeast: 42
- Midwest: 18
- South: 26
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 561
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 1
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,900
Housing units in Bigler township with a mortgage: 175 (17 second mortgage, 18 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 206
- Construction (16%)
- Wood products (10%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Public administration (13%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bigler township:
- German (18.9%)
- Polish (13.8%)
- English (13.6%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- Ukrainian (6.1%)
- Irish (5.7%)
- Slovak (5.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (86%)
- Germany (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 365 (74%)
- Carpooled: 103 (21%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (79%)
- Coal or coke (15%)
- Wood (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
95.9% of residents of Bigler township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,342- In family households: 1,160 (301 male householders, 74 female householders)
300 spouses, 407 children (382 natural, 2 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 9 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 182 (63 male householders (49 living alone)), 97 female householders (90 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 167 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 139 1-person, 20 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
241 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (21 men, 40 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |