Fairfield township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Fairfield township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Fairfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% 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: 2302
- Northeast: 155
- Midwest: 45
- South: 94
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 724
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 11
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 331
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,100
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 378 (27 second mortgage, 85 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 198
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- 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 (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- German (41.5%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Italian (7.3%)
- English (6.6%)
- Polish (4.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ecuador (36%)
- United Kingdom (21%)
- Greece (14%)
- Other Eastern Africa (14%)
- Canada (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,098 (89%)
- Carpooled: 84 (7%)
- Walked: 6 (0%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 36 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Utility gas (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (2%)
97.8% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,659- In family households: 2,375 (679 male householders, 118 female householders)
679 spouses, 828 children (765 natural, 21 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 10 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 284 (119 male householders (85 living alone)), 111 female householders (100 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 361 2-persons, 184 3-persons, 165 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 185 1-person, 38 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
530 married couples with children.
120 single-parent households (53 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 24.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |