Washington township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1217
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 175
- South: 120
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 579
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,400
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 271 (23 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 117
- Transportation equipment (16%)
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Food (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (21%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (55.6%)
- United States or American (9.4%)
- Irish (6.0%)
- French (except Basque) (4.2%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- English (2.9%)
- Polish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Dominican Republic (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 615 (81%)
- Carpooled: 82 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Railroad: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 26 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 20 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (46%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (3%)
- Solar energy (2%)
97.6% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,529- In family households: 1,407 (415 male householders, 67 female householders)
424 spouses, 471 children (441 natural, 0 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 8 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 122 (65 male householders (51 living alone)), 38 female householders (38 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 238 2-persons, 125 3-persons, 70 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 89 1-person, 7 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
172 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (9 men, 14 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |