Freedom township, Blair County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Freedom township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Freedom 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, 64% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2993
- Northeast: 61
- Midwest: 29
- South: 138
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $125,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 960
- One, attached: 57
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 58
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 227
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,400
Housing units in Freedom township with a mortgage: 370 (22 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 371
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Paper (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Health technologists and technicians (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Freedom township:
- German (53.0%)
- United States or American (15.9%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- English (3.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.0%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (57%)
- Brazil (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,189 (79%)
- Carpooled: 215 (14%)
- Walked: 46 (3%)
- Worked at home: 51 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (73%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
99.1% of residents of Freedom township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,261- In family households: 2,915 (753 male householders, 226 female householders)
772 spouses, 969 children (835 natural, 6 adopted, 128 stepchildren), 57 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 42 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 346 (135 male householders (130 living alone)), 163 female householders (127 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 408 2-persons, 248 3-persons, 189 4-persons, 102 5-persons, 32 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 257 1-person, 41 2-persons,
585 married couples with children.
146 single-parent households (40 men, 106 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 19.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |