Gaskill township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Gaskill township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Gaskill township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 604
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 23
- South: 9
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
21 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 250
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 72
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Gaskill township with a mortgage: 70 (5 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 59
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (30%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gaskill township:
- German (38.4%)
- English (13.5%)
- Italian (9.8%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Scottish (4.4%)
- Slovak (4.2%)
- Polish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 231 (85%)
- Carpooled: 30 (11%)
- Walked: 6 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
21 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.6% of residents of Gaskill township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 639- In family households: 577 (158 male householders, 40 female householders)
160 spouses, 194 children (186 natural, 0 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 3 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 62 (15 male householders (11 living alone)), 38 female householders (38 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 24 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 90 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 51 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person, 2 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
124 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (11 men, 21 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 10.0% |
| 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: 4
| Here: | 19.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |