Sandy township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (86% naturalized citizens)
Sandy township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
59% of Sandy township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9662
- Northeast: 529
- Midwest: 494
- South: 561
- West: 201
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Sandy township, Pennsylvania:
- 462 people in nursing homes
- 97 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,417
- One, attached: 79
- Two: 79
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 22
- 10 to 19: 13
- 20 to 49: 13
- 50 or more: 73
- Mobile homes: 307
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Sandy township with a mortgage: 1,986 (140 second mortgage, 369 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,172
- Health care (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sandy township:
- German (27.9%)
- Italian (12.5%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- United States or American (8.5%)
- Polish (5.5%)
- Scottish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (28%)
- United Kingdom (21%)
- Italy (14%)
- India (14%)
- Hong Kong (9%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Korea (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,291 (88%)
- Carpooled: 370 (8%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 192 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
People in group quarters in Sandy township, Pennsylvania:
- 462 people in nursing homes
- 97 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.0% of residents of Sandy township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,985- In family households: 9,645 (2,797 male householders, 461 female householders)
2,909 spouses, 3,042 children (2,836 natural, 97 adopted, 109 stepchildren), 190 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 145 other relatives, 76 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,340 (559 male householders (432 living alone)), 558 female householders (523 living alone)), 223 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 571 (442 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,611 2-persons, 660 3-persons, 637 4-persons, 249 5-persons, 93 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 955 1-person, 116 2-persons, 36 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
2,118 married couples with children.
366 single-parent households (96 men, 270 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 262
Here: | 21.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 141
Here: | 21.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
Here: | 18.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |