Greenfield township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Greenfield township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Greenfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 84% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1665
- Northeast: 98
- Midwest: 66
- South: 43
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 551
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 163
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,700
Housing units in Greenfield township with a mortgage: 163 (9 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Construction (16%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Greenfield township:
- German (25.9%)
- Polish (15.0%)
- United States or American (11.9%)
- English (9.6%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Italian (7.1%)
- Swedish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Africa (50%)
- Germany (30%)
- India (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 819 (85%)
- Carpooled: 112 (12%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 26 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (11%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (4%)
96.6% of residents of Greenfield township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,907- In family households: 1,756 (458 male householders, 71 female householders)
449 spouses, 641 children (562 natural, 31 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 28 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 151 (81 male householders (64 living alone)), 40 female householders (31 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 198 2-persons, 131 3-persons, 103 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 95 1-person, 22 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
452 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (29 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 46
| Here: | 18.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 9.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
| Here: | 35.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |