Shade township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Shade township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Shade township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2701
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 43
- South: 88
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 981
- One, attached: 109
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 145
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,800
Housing units in Shade township with a mortgage: 318 (33 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 452
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (31%)
- Construction (18%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (8%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (35%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (25%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (14%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shade township:
- German (26.3%)
- Polish (14.9%)
- United States or American (8.4%)
- English (8.2%)
- Italian (7.2%)
- Slovak (6.5%)
- Russian (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 925 (81%)
- Carpooled: 166 (15%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (60%)
- Coal or coke (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (2%)
3 people in religious group quarters
96.7% of residents of Shade township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,884- In family households: 2,500 (726 male householders, 112 female householders)
699 spouses, 817 children (759 natural, 16 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 19 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 384 (153 male householders (119 living alone)), 189 female householders (176 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 384 2-persons, 184 3-persons, 173 4-persons, 69 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 295 1-person, 47 2-persons,
479 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (33 men, 71 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 7.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |