Snyder township, Blair County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Snyder township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Snyder township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 83% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3187
- Northeast: 80
- Midwest: 28
- South: 35
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,063
- Two: 37
- 3 or 4: 67
- 5 to 9: 7
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 248
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,600
Housing units in Snyder township with a mortgage: 475 (73 second mortgage, 81 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 320
- Construction (13%)
- Health care (8%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (8%)
- Food (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Health care (24%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Snyder township:
- German (34.3%)
- United States or American (17.4%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- Italian (9.2%)
- English (7.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.4%)
- Polish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- France (60%)
- Thailand (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,068 (78%)
- Carpooled: 190 (14%)
- Walked: 39 (3%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 52 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Wood (5%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
99.0% of residents of Snyder township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 37% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,347- In family households: 2,961 (804 male householders, 197 female householders)
792 spouses, 967 children (911 natural, 20 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 119 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 9 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 386 (166 male householders (150 living alone)), 172 female householders (159 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 28 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 454 2-persons, 239 3-persons, 202 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 309 1-person, 25 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
547 married couples with children.
164 single-parent households (41 men, 123 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |