Hemlock township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (76% naturalized citizens)
Hemlock township: | 2.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Hemlock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1564
- Northeast: 122
- Midwest: 61
- South: 36
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 654
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 13
- Mobile homes: 58
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,800
Housing units in Hemlock township with a mortgage: 339 (29 second mortgage, 67 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 164
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hemlock township:
- German (39.0%)
- United States or American (11.2%)
- Polish (6.9%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Dutch (6.1%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- English (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (16%)
- Taiwan (13%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (9%)
- Japan (9%)
- India (9%)
- Netherlands (7%)
- Philippines (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 792 (85%)
- Carpooled: 102 (11%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Utility gas (11%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.7% of residents of Hemlock township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 53% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English well, 67% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,874- In family households: 1,685 (504 male householders, 57 female householders)
517 spouses, 540 children (493 natural, 9 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 14 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 189 (64 male householders (50 living alone)), 91 female householders (72 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 257 2-persons, 122 3-persons, 121 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 122 1-person, 32 2-persons, 1 5-persons,
373 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (46 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
Here: | 9.2% |
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: 7
Here: | 15.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |