West St. Clair township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (14% naturalized citizens)
| West St. Clair township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of West St. Clair township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1438
- Northeast: 39
- Midwest: 62
- South: 97
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 503
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 170
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 1
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,500
Housing units in West St. Clair township with a mortgage: 152 (28 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 129
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West St. Clair township:
- German (41.2%)
- United States or American (22.2%)
- English (6.2%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (57%)
- United Kingdom (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 592 (83%)
- Carpooled: 69 (10%)
- Walked: 15 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 33 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (68%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (11%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Solar energy (1%)
98.0% of residents of West St. Clair township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,667- In family households: 1,530 (406 male householders, 67 female householders)
423 spouses, 553 children (514 natural, 7 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 18 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 137 (61 male householders (55 living alone)), 60 female householders (54 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 192 2-persons, 107 3-persons, 98 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 109 1-person, 9 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
375 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (24 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |