Wheatfield township, Perry County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Wheatfield township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Wheatfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2963
- Northeast: 130
- Midwest: 50
- South: 126
- West: 13
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: 0.0% of all households
8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 958
- Mobile homes: 325
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,500
Housing units in Wheatfield township with a mortgage: 521 (37 second mortgage, 106 home equity loan, 23 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 149
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheatfield township:
- German (45.3%)
- United States or American (16.5%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Italian (6.0%)
- English (4.5%)
- Scottish (2.1%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (45%)
- Canada (21%)
- Other Northern America (19%)
- Turkey (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,334 (79%)
- Carpooled: 264 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 13 (1%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 61 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (48%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Coal or coke (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (7%)
8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.5% of residents of Wheatfield township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 49% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,316- In family households: 3,010 (812 male householders, 155 female householders)
865 spouses, 1,023 children (948 natural, 17 adopted, 58 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 38 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 306 (149 male householders (112 living alone)), 105 female householders (103 living alone)), 52 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 375 2-persons, 225 3-persons, 232 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 215 1-person, 30 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
708 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (48 men, 89 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 56
| Here: | 12.3% |
| 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: 13
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |