Upper Yoder township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Yoder township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Upper Yoder township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5391
- Northeast: 67
- Midwest: 86
- South: 161
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Upper Yoder township, Pennsylvania:
- 406 people in nursing homes
- 354 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 17 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,924
- One, attached: 36
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 48
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 58
- 20 to 49: 65
- 50 or more: 10
- Mobile homes: 85
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Upper Yoder township with a mortgage: 776 (77 second mortgage, 127 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 788
- Health care (13%)
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (30%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Yoder township:
- German (24.0%)
- Italian (9.9%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- Polish (9.3%)
- English (9.2%)
- United States or American (7.4%)
- Slovak (6.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (33%)
- Austria (16%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Italy (10%)
- Yugoslavia (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,162 (87%)
- Carpooled: 198 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 23 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Other means: 12 (0%)
- Worked at home: 72 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Upper Yoder township, Pennsylvania:
- 406 people in nursing homes
- 354 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 17 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.9% of residents of Upper Yoder township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 53% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,149- In family households: 4,476 (1,349 male householders, 175 female householders)
1,332 spouses, 1,427 children (1,348 natural, 20 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 89 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 10 other relatives, 54 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 673 (200 male householders (168 living alone)), 423 female householders (399 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 713 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 743 2-persons, 357 3-persons, 264 4-persons, 116 5-persons, 35 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 567 1-person, 56 2-persons,
879 married couples with children.
152 single-parent households (39 men, 113 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 129
| Here: | 23.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 52
| Here: | 17.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |