Brush Valley township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (84% naturalized citizens)
Brush Valley township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Brush Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1660
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 51
- South: 100
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 596
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 186
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,900
Housing units in Brush Valley township with a mortgage: 203 (26 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 155
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brush Valley township:
- German (27.0%)
- United States or American (10.8%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- Italian (7.5%)
- Polish (7.2%)
- English (6.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (74%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Japan (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 628 (78%)
- Carpooled: 90 (11%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 66 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (7%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.3% of residents of Brush Valley township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
4.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 51% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,876- In family households: 1,697 (466 male householders, 79 female householders)
463 spouses, 629 children (588 natural, 16 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 4 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 179 (78 male householders (52 living alone)), 75 female householders (73 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 225 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 114 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 26 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
420 married couples with children.
52 single-parent households (16 men, 36 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
Here: | 10.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
Here: | 0.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 12.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |