Upper Augusta township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (76% naturalized citizens)
Upper Augusta township: | 0.8% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Upper Augusta township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2257
- Northeast: 148
- Midwest: 19
- South: 68
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $156,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
58 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 980
- One, attached: 28
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 41
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,800
Housing units in Upper Augusta township with a mortgage: 442 (29 second mortgage, 91 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 325
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Augusta township:
- German (45.4%)
- United States or American (14.4%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Polish (7.2%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
- English (4.0%)
- Italian (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Central Asia (24%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (24%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Germany (19%)
- Canada (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,169 (88%)
- Carpooled: 93 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Worked at home: 36 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (41%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
58 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
99.1% of residents of Upper Augusta township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,494- In family households: 2,243 (691 male householders, 115 female householders)
658 spouses, 705 children (666 natural, 6 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 11 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 251 (76 male householders (65 living alone)), 142 female householders (130 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 61 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 407 2-persons, 201 3-persons, 130 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 195 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
398 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (24 men, 53 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
Here: | 23.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
Here: | 12.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
Here: | 48.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |