Jefferson township, Greene County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Jefferson township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2032
- Northeast: 61
- Midwest: 137
- South: 240
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
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
17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 867
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 8
- 50 or more: 5
- Mobile homes: 182
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,000
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 276 (21 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 321
- Construction (13%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Extraction workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- Italian (14.7%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- English (12.3%)
- German (10.9%)
- Polish (9.5%)
- United States or American (9.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Nicaragua (38%)
- United Kingdom (31%)
- Canada (31%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 871 (84%)
- Carpooled: 90 (9%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 57 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
2 people in religious group quarters
97.0% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,510- In family households: 2,171 (614 male householders, 138 female householders)
612 spouses, 661 children (632 natural, 18 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 34 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 25 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 339 (94 male householders (74 living alone)), 191 female householders (171 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 19 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 369 2-persons, 190 3-persons, 128 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 245 1-person, 33 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
375 married couples with children.
93 single-parent households (22 men, 71 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 5.6% |
| 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: 10
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |