Oliver township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
Oliver township: | 0.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Oliver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1930
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 29
- South: 54
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $26,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 729
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 26
- Mobile homes: 133
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,000
Housing units in Oliver township with a mortgage: 272 (31 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 219
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oliver township:
- German (39.1%)
- United States or American (29.4%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- English (6.8%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- Swiss (1.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 785 (83%)
- Carpooled: 68 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 77 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (14%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.5% of residents of Oliver township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (55% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,065- In family households: 1,855 (527 male householders, 85 female householders)
526 spouses, 636 children (598 natural, 6 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 9 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 210 (84 male householders (74 living alone)), 114 female householders (114 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 273 2-persons, 148 3-persons, 111 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 188 1-person, 10 2-persons,
397 married couples with children.
72 single-parent households (26 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
Here: | 12.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
Here: | 9.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 19.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |