Roaring Creek township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Roaring Creek township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
81% of Roaring Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 435
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 4
- South: 9
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
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: 233
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $73,300
Housing units in Roaring Creek township with a mortgage: 55 (7 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Roaring Creek township:
- German (35.8%)
- Polish (16.5%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (7.2%)
- Italian (5.7%)
- Irish (4.8%)
- Dutch (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 209 (88%)
- Carpooled: 16 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (3%)
- Worked at home: 4 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (61%)
- Coal or coke (12%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Wood (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
97.8% of residents of Roaring Creek township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 484- In family households: 432 (141 male householders, 9 female householders)
138 spouses, 130 children (123 natural, 4 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 52 (26 male householders (23 living alone)), 22 female householders (20 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 43 1-person, 5 2-persons,
86 married couples with children.
17 single-parent households (5 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
Here: | 7.8% |
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: 4
Here: | 25.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |