Ridgebury township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (68% naturalized citizens)
Ridgebury township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Ridgebury township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 25% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1149
- Northeast: 699
- Midwest: 24
- South: 62
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $62,500
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: 0.4% of all households
13 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 635
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 3
- 10 to 19: 2
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 298
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,300
Housing units in Ridgebury township with a mortgage: 183 (16 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 112
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bus drivers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ridgebury township:
- United States or American (20.5%)
- German (18.5%)
- English (17.2%)
- Irish (14.4%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- Dutch (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (21%)
- Germany (16%)
- Ireland (11%)
- India (11%)
- Guatemala (11%)
- Colombia (11%)
- Canada (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 653 (79%)
- Carpooled: 100 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 13 (2%)
- Walked: 17 (2%)
- Other means: 15 (2%)
- Worked at home: 24 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Wood (13%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
13 people in nursing homes
97.1% of residents of Ridgebury township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,969- In family households: 1,744 (475 male householders, 94 female householders)
469 spouses, 587 children (534 natural, 19 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 9 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 225 (94 male householders (82 living alone)), 94 female householders (82 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 262 2-persons, 131 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 164 1-person, 16 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
371 married couples with children.
94 single-parent households (33 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
Here: | 8.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 3.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
Here: | 22.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |