Blooming Grove township, Pike County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Blooming Grove township: | 5.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
56% of Blooming Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 11% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 31% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 870
- Northeast: 2306
- Midwest: 91
- South: 108
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $100,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
202 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,151
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 90
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $60,500
Housing units in Blooming Grove township with a mortgage: 705 (14 second mortgage, 77 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 443
- Construction (17%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Health care (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blooming Grove township:
- German (19.9%)
- Italian (18.7%)
- Irish (15.8%)
- Polish (6.8%)
- English (5.3%)
- Russian (3.7%)
- United States or American (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (14%)
- Dominican Republic (13%)
- Poland (11%)
- Ukraine (5%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Romania (5%)
- Russia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 964 (77%)
- Carpooled: 164 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 27 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (1%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 52 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
202 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
90.2% of residents of Blooming Grove township speak English at home.
4.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
5.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,421- In family households: 3,054 (846 male householders, 244 female householders)
955 spouses, 867 children (806 natural, 17 adopted, 44 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 26 parents, 30 other relatives, 36 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 367 (149 male householders (116 living alone)), 157 female householders (141 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 200 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 609 2-persons, 194 3-persons, 170 4-persons, 84 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 257 1-person, 47 2-persons, 1 4-persons, 1 5-persons,
547 married couples with children.
145 single-parent households (47 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 5.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 39
| Here: | 59.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |