Salem township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Salem township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Salem township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 780
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 24
- South: 24
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 294
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 53
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,100
Housing units in Salem township with a mortgage: 83 (4 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 55
- Construction (11%)
- Wood products (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (13%)
- Social assistance (11%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Child care workers (13%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Salem township:
- German (51.9%)
- United States or American (10.9%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Dutch (3.6%)
- English (3.6%)
- Italian (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 305 (85%)
- Carpooled: 19 (5%)
- Walked: 17 (5%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 15 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Other fuel (4%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
99.0% of residents of Salem township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 852- In family households: 779 (213 male householders, 36 female householders)
225 spouses, 278 children (260 natural, 7 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 2 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (32 male householders (23 living alone)), 29 female householders (27 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 108 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 53 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 50 1-person, 11 2-persons,
183 married couples with children.
28 single-parent households (10 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |