Highland township, Elk County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Highland township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Highland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 492
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 8
- South: 14
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $28,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 552
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 97
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Highland township with a mortgage: 81 (2 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 58
- Wood products (18%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (26%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (20%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Woodworkers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Highland township:
- German (22.7%)
- Swedish (16.1%)
- United States or American (15.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.1%)
- Polish (5.4%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- English (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 198 (82%)
- Carpooled: 32 (13%)
- Walked: 6 (2%)
- Worked at home: 5 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Wood (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
97.5% of residents of Highland township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 545- In family households: 445 (110 male householders, 33 female householders)
122 spouses, 162 children (155 natural, 2 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 2 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 100 (47 male householders (34 living alone)), 30 female householders (28 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 53 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 62 1-person, 8 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
80 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (10 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 6.5% |
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: 1
Here: | 16.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |