Fishing Creek township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Fishing Creek township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Fishing Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1179
- Northeast: 132
- Midwest: 36
- South: 38
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 597
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 103
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,300
Housing units in Fishing Creek township with a mortgage: 163 (9 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 86
- Construction (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fishing Creek township:
- German (40.1%)
- English (8.6%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Dutch (6.5%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- Italian (5.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (31%)
- Honduras (25%)
- Other Western Europe (19%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (13%)
- Mexico (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 562 (85%)
- Carpooled: 77 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 15 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Wood (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
97.7% of residents of Fishing Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,405- In family households: 1,232 (367 male householders, 55 female householders)
379 spouses, 389 children (350 natural, 10 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 9 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 173 (59 male householders (42 living alone)), 79 female householders (70 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 193 2-persons, 111 3-persons, 76 4-persons, 34 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 112 1-person, 20 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
245 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (13 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 9.1% |
| 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: | 16.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |