Springfield township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Springfield township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Springfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1789
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 79
- South: 37
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $83,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
6 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 626
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 3
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 126
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,000
Housing units in Springfield township with a mortgage: 239 (22 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 127
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Springfield township:
- German (27.3%)
- Irish (13.2%)
- English (11.4%)
- Italian (7.5%)
- United States or American (7.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- Polish (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Other Eastern Europe (25%)
- India (25%)
- Peru (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 841 (86%)
- Carpooled: 72 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 40 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (38%)
- Utility gas (33%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Other fuel (2%)
6 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
95.8% of residents of Springfield township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,966- In family households: 1,775 (484 male householders, 80 female householders)
482 spouses, 605 children (563 natural, 11 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 43 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 24 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 191 (82 male householders (58 living alone)), 72 female householders (67 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 237 2-persons, 126 3-persons, 134 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 19 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
408 married couples with children.
49 single-parent households (26 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
Here: | 10.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
Here: | 9.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 38.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |