Ridgway township, Elk County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Ridgway township: | 0.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Ridgway township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2606
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 45
- South: 66
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $48,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
34 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,018
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 30
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 136
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,700
Housing units in Ridgway township with a mortgage: 371 (35 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 310
- Chemicals (15%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Construction (9%)
- Paper (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ridgway township:
- German (31.0%)
- Italian (20.4%)
- Swedish (8.1%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- Irish (5.8%)
- English (5.8%)
- Swiss (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,091 (82%)
- Carpooled: 149 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 31 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
34 people in nursing homes
97.7% of residents of Ridgway township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,767- In family households: 2,463 (659 male householders, 136 female householders)
658 spouses, 879 children (807 natural, 19 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 41 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 15 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 304 (138 male householders (102 living alone)), 130 female householders (126 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 35 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 357 2-persons, 178 3-persons, 159 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 228 1-person, 35 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
578 married couples with children.
116 single-parent households (33 men, 83 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 70
Here: | 21.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 2.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 11.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |