Liberty township, Centre County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Liberty township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Liberty township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1722
- Northeast: 36
- Midwest: 37
- South: 37
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 606
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 228
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,700
Housing units in Liberty township with a mortgage: 240 (17 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 158
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Liberty township:
- German (37.0%)
- United States or American (21.0%)
- English (9.8%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Italian (4.7%)
- Dutch (3.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (50%)
- Mexico (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 632 (72%)
- Carpooled: 184 (21%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 27 (3%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (72%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.2% of residents of Liberty township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,866- In family households: 1,605 (445 male householders, 101 female householders)
440 spouses, 525 children (476 natural, 11 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 14 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 261 (111 male householders (78 living alone)), 101 female householders (99 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 269 2-persons, 120 3-persons, 114 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 177 1-person, 28 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
329 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (41 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 1.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 18.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |