Bedford township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Bedford township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Bedford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4325
- Northeast: 172
- Midwest: 208
- South: 581
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Bedford township, Pennsylvania:
- 104 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 94 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,922
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 40
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 19
- Mobile homes: 377
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,400
Housing units in Bedford township with a mortgage: 675 (68 second mortgage, 96 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 501
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bedford township:
- German (41.1%)
- United States or American (20.5%)
- English (9.9%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (25%)
- Canada (21%)
- Germany (20%)
- Hungary (11%)
- Taiwan (10%)
- Thailand (7%)
- Cuba (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,014 (83%)
- Carpooled: 216 (9%)
- Walked: 57 (2%)
- Other means: 36 (1%)
- Worked at home: 113 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Utility gas (8%)
- Wood (8%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Bedford township, Pennsylvania:
- 104 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 94 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 4 people in religious group quarters
98.2% of residents of Bedford township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English well, 47% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,205- In family households: 4,549 (1,395 male householders, 181 female householders)
1,247 spouses, 1,436 children (1,338 natural, 15 adopted, 83 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 28 brothers or sisters, 37 parents, 44 other relatives, 123 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 656 (237 male householders (193 living alone)), 333 female householders (314 living alone)), 86 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 212 (195 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 803 2-persons, 348 3-persons, 296 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 507 1-person, 55 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
893 married couples with children.
185 single-parent households (57 men, 128 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 67
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |