Fairfield township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Fairfield township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Fairfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2273
- Northeast: 37
- Midwest: 51
- South: 104
- West: 55
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $23,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Fairfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 34 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 883
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 232
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,600
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 239 (22 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 286
- Construction (20%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- German (32.1%)
- English (13.3%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- United States or American (6.6%)
- Italian (6.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
- Polish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 830 (81%)
- Carpooled: 125 (12%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 19 (2%)
- Worked at home: 45 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (60%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (7%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Fairfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 34 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in religious group quarters
98.3% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,475- In family households: 2,232 (603 male householders, 135 female householders)
577 spouses, 819 children (745 natural, 23 adopted, 51 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 4 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 243 (107 male householders (91 living alone)), 109 female householders (97 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 61 (30 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 320 2-persons, 173 3-persons, 157 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 188 1-person, 28 2-persons,
447 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (31 men, 73 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
| Here: | 12.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
| Here: | 34.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |