Upper Mifflin township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (86% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Mifflin township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Upper Mifflin 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, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1208
- Northeast: 39
- Midwest: 23
- South: 47
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.9% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 350
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 93
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,100
Housing units in Upper Mifflin township with a mortgage: 160 (17 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 48
- Construction (19%)
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Warehousing and storage (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Mifflin township:
- German (36.2%)
- United States or American (21.3%)
- Irish (6.2%)
- English (5.0%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (36%)
- Italy (29%)
- Germany (14%)
- Cuba (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 577 (82%)
- Carpooled: 77 (11%)
- Railroad: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Other means: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 20 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (55%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
94.2% of residents of Upper Mifflin township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
4.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,348- In family households: 1,269 (336 male householders, 44 female householders)
318 spouses, 495 children (449 natural, 7 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 14 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 79 (46 male householders (30 living alone)), 14 female householders (14 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 124 2-persons, 88 3-persons, 116 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 44 1-person, 16 2-persons,
311 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (21 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |