Bloomfield township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Bloomfield township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Bloomfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 886
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 16
- South: 24
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 315
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,600
Housing units in Bloomfield township with a mortgage: 136 (7 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 71
- Paper (12%)
- Construction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Leather and allied products (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Paper (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bloomfield township:
- German (54.9%)
- United States or American (12.1%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- Swiss (2.9%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Australia (50%)
- Colombia (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 393 (84%)
- Carpooled: 37 (8%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (2%)
- Worked at home: 28 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (66%)
- Wood (13%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
95.5% of residents of Bloomfield township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 968- In family households: 895 (273 male householders, 16 female householders)
248 spouses, 332 children (302 natural, 8 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 9 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (25 male householders (18 living alone)), 31 female householders (25 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 116 2-persons, 67 3-persons, 71 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 43 1-person, 11 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
263 married couples with children.
11 single-parent households (8 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 4.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |