Springfield township, Erie County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
Springfield township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Springfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 21% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2461
- Northeast: 163
- Midwest: 558
- South: 118
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,039
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 360
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,500
Housing units in Springfield township with a mortgage: 439 (42 second mortgage, 58 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 258
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Springfield township:
- German (24.4%)
- United States or American (14.8%)
- English (11.6%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- Italian (11.2%)
- Polish (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (50%)
- Japan (19%)
- Korea (19%)
- Colombia (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,301 (85%)
- Carpooled: 170 (11%)
- Walked: 28 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 32 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Wood (1%)
97.6% of residents of Springfield township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,378- In family households: 3,036 (743 male householders, 218 female householders)
794 spouses, 1,136 children (1,024 natural, 52 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 26 other relatives, 77 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 342 (153 male householders (135 living alone)), 143 female householders (119 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 359 2-persons, 243 3-persons, 198 4-persons, 114 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 254 1-person, 42 2-persons,
609 married couples with children.
212 single-parent households (54 men, 158 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 89
Here: | 20.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
Here: | 12.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
Here: | 19.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |