Locust township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Locust township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Locust township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1039
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 111
- South: 36
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $103,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 427
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 76
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,600
Housing units in Locust township with a mortgage: 189 (39 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 74
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Locust township:
- German (31.9%)
- United States or American (24.7%)
- English (13.2%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Scottish (4.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 477 (82%)
- Carpooled: 82 (14%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
98.2% of residents of Locust township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (36% speak English very well, 64% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,220- In family households: 1,111 (312 male householders, 61 female householders)
339 spouses, 372 children (349 natural, 0 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 109 (50 male householders (43 living alone)), 54 female householders (54 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 175 2-persons, 106 3-persons, 46 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 97 1-person, 7 2-persons,
272 married couples with children.
27 single-parent households (11 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |