Briar Creek township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (78% naturalized citizens)
Briar Creek township: | 2.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Briar Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% 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: 2667
- Northeast: 182
- Midwest: 33
- South: 65
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $44,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,075
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 260
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,800
Housing units in Briar Creek township with a mortgage: 474 (24 second mortgage, 72 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 296
- Textile mills and textile products (12%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Food (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Briar Creek township:
- German (31.6%)
- Italian (13.4%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- United States or American (9.6%)
- Dutch (5.5%)
- English (5.2%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (25%)
- Philippines (19%)
- Ukraine (14%)
- Nigeria (13%)
- Australia (13%)
- Other Western Europe (9%)
- Germany (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,204 (88%)
- Carpooled: 75 (5%)
- Walked: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 75 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (2%)
97.5% of residents of Briar Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,060- In family households: 2,730 (770 male householders, 141 female householders)
766 spouses, 907 children (828 natural, 22 adopted, 57 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 33 other relatives, 53 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 330 (118 male householders (99 living alone)), 185 female householders (170 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 434 2-persons, 211 3-persons, 196 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 269 1-person, 34 2-persons,
529 married couples with children.
106 single-parent households (39 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
Here: | 6.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 3.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 31
Here: | 38.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |