Sweden township, Potter County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
Sweden township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Sweden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 29% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 94% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1123
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 51
- South: 50
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 504
- One, attached: 5
- Mobile homes: 174
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,700
Housing units in Sweden township with a mortgage: 130 (23 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 56
- Construction (18%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sweden township:
- German (24.9%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- United States or American (9.8%)
- Polish (6.8%)
- English (5.7%)
- Dutch (5.3%)
- French (except Basque) (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (43%)
- Germany (29%)
- Netherlands (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 422 (74%)
- Carpooled: 125 (22%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (69%)
- Wood (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Electricity (3%)
99.2% of residents of Sweden township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,274- In family households: 1,128 (286 male householders, 64 female householders)
290 spouses, 400 children (382 natural, 8 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 6 other relatives, 52 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 146 (60 male householders (43 living alone)), 42 female householders (33 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 154 2-persons, 75 3-persons, 63 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 76 1-person, 16 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
156 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (19 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 4.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
Here: | 15.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |