Jefferson township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (76% naturalized citizens)
| Jefferson township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2035
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 160
- South: 84
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 604
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 368
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,900
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 249 (15 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- German (27.9%)
- English (13.6%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- United States or American (9.0%)
- Italian (5.5%)
- Polish (4.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (24%)
- Korea (24%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Jamaica (12%)
- Brazil (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 932 (90%)
- Carpooled: 54 (5%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (37%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.3% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,416- In family households: 2,101 (574 male householders, 135 female householders)
576 spouses, 703 children (641 natural, 21 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 11 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 315 (125 male householders (100 living alone)), 132 female householders (124 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 323 2-persons, 157 3-persons, 159 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 224 1-person, 24 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 5-persons,
438 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (34 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 4.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
| Here: | 58.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |