Elder township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (13% naturalized citizens)
| Elder township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
83% of Elder township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 87% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 906
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 14
- South: 15
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 362
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 39
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,200
Housing units in Elder township with a mortgage: 86 (22 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Construction (17%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Health care (37%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elder township:
- German (38.2%)
- Polish (9.8%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- Italian (6.6%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- French (except Basque) (5.4%)
- Slovak (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (38%)
- Germany (25%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 324 (83%)
- Carpooled: 50 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Coal or coke (22%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.9% of residents of Elder township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 959- In family households: 848 (234 male householders, 49 female householders)
252 spouses, 266 children (252 natural, 6 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 20 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 111 (43 male householders (34 living alone)), 48 female householders (47 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 124 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 63 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 81 1-person, 4 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
182 married couples with children.
25 single-parent households (10 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 62.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |