Beaver township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Beaver township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Beaver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 770
- Northeast: 59
- Midwest: 20
- South: 29
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 379
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,500
Housing units in Beaver township with a mortgage: 110 (10 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 78
- Construction (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Construction laborers (3%)
- Food processing workers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Beaver township:
- German (30.8%)
- Polish (14.0%)
- United States or American (11.3%)
- Italian (7.3%)
- Dutch (7.0%)
- English (5.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Japan (33%)
- Korea (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 356 (84%)
- Carpooled: 33 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (3%)
- Worked at home: 16 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Coal or coke (13%)
- Wood (11%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.6% of residents of Beaver township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 896- In family households: 808 (236 male householders, 30 female householders)
232 spouses, 245 children (236 natural, 6 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 10 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 88 (42 male householders (37 living alone)), 42 female householders (42 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 116 2-persons, 55 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 79 1-person, 5 2-persons,
149 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (4 men, 14 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 3.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 3.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 12.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |