Buffalo township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Buffalo township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
81% of Buffalo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1011
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 20
- South: 48
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 379
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 88
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,500
Housing units in Buffalo township with a mortgage: 171 (23 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 76
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buffalo township:
- German (47.6%)
- United States or American (19.8%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- English (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (60%)
- Korea (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 486 (83%)
- Carpooled: 74 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 21 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Other fuel (3%)
98.2% of residents of Buffalo township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,128- In family households: 1,025 (288 male householders, 39 female householders)
288 spouses, 356 children (315 natural, 12 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 2 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 103 (58 male householders (50 living alone)), 34 female householders (34 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 147 2-persons, 66 3-persons, 75 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 84 1-person, 6 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
226 married couples with children.
33 single-parent households (16 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 6.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 12.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 15.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |