Chest township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Chest township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Chest township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 551
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 21
- South: 9
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 186
- Mobile homes: 71
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Chest township with a mortgage: 38 (3 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 39
- Truck transportation (16%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Leather and allied products (6%)
- Fuel dealers (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (20%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (18%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Extraction workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chest township:
- German (32.0%)
- United States or American (20.5%)
- Irish (16.5%)
- English (5.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.5%)
- Polish (3.2%)
- Swedish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 183 (87%)
- Carpooled: 9 (4%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (4%)
- Worked at home: 8 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (62%)
- Coal or coke (27%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.8% of residents of Chest township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 599- In family households: 553 (144 male householders, 24 female householders)
133 spouses, 214 children (199 natural, 5 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 10 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 46 (22 male householders (15 living alone)), 15 female householders (13 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 57 2-persons, 39 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28 1-person, 9 2-persons,
99 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (3 men, 20 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 62.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |