Westfall township, Pike County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Westfall township: | 5.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Westfall township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 9% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 382
- Northeast: 1790
- Midwest: 44
- South: 46
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $132,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
61 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 794
- One, attached: 74
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 183
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,100
Housing units in Westfall township with a mortgage: 375 (42 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 194
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Bus drivers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Westfall township:
- German (24.1%)
- Italian (17.0%)
- Irish (14.0%)
- English (8.0%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- United States or American (4.2%)
- Dutch (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (19%)
- Germany (14%)
- Canada (10%)
- Poland (8%)
- Other Caribbean (7%)
- Hungary (5%)
- Russia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 905 (82%)
- Carpooled: 111 (10%)
- Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
- Railroad: 12 (1%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 52 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
61 people in nursing homes
93.3% of residents of Westfall township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,369- In family households: 2,051 (544 male householders, 133 female householders)
577 spouses, 681 children (597 natural, 29 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 35 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 40 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 318 (118 male householders (98 living alone)), 154 female householders (137 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 61 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 323 2-persons, 139 3-persons, 127 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 235 1-person, 32 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
436 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (24 men, 73 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 27.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |