West Beaver township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| West Beaver township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of West Beaver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 91% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1031
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 11
- South: 36
- West: 8
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 344
- One, attached: 14
- 3 or 4: 9
- Mobile homes: 94
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in West Beaver township with a mortgage: 101 (12 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Wood products (17%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Woodworkers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Beaver township:
- German (45.6%)
- United States or American (31.7%)
- English (5.0%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 355 (71%)
- Carpooled: 78 (16%)
- Walked: 14 (3%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 48 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (60%)
- Wood (23%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
87.9% of residents of West Beaver township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
11.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (32% speak English very well, 61% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,124- In family households: 1,025 (283 male householders, 27 female householders)
289 spouses, 391 children (374 natural, 5 adopted, 12 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 4 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 99 (50 male householders (37 living alone)), 25 female householders (24 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 118 2-persons, 77 3-persons, 57 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 61 1-person, 10 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
300 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (14 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 39
| Here: | 22.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |