Clifford township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (82% naturalized citizens)
| Clifford township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Clifford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1888
- Northeast: 300
- Midwest: 53
- South: 77
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $150,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
2 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 934
- One, attached: 19
- Two: 37
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 12
- Mobile homes: 185
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Clifford township with a mortgage: 283 (35 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 178
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clifford township:
- Irish (16.9%)
- Italian (12.5%)
- German (12.3%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- Polish (10.9%)
- English (10.8%)
- Welsh (5.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (18%)
- Germany (18%)
- Canada (18%)
- Austria (9%)
- France (9%)
- Poland (9%)
- Other Central America (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 884 (82%)
- Carpooled: 114 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 41 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (7%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
2 people in nursing homes
97.0% of residents of Clifford township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,375- In family households: 2,078 (563 male householders, 93 female householders)
564 spouses, 775 children (730 natural, 17 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 16 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 297 (129 male householders (98 living alone)), 109 female householders (101 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (3 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 292 2-persons, 124 3-persons, 144 4-persons, 56 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 199 1-person, 26 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
459 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (43 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 54
| Here: | 16.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 33
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
| Here: | 30.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |