Franklin township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 561
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 16
- South: 23
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 213
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 39
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 65 (6 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Construction (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (25%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Other direct selling establishments (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- German (48.9%)
- Polish (9.7%)
- Dutch (5.4%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- English (4.2%)
- Irish (3.8%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (50%)
- Russia (33%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 273 (83%)
- Carpooled: 26 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 20 (6%)
- Worked at home: 7 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Coal or coke (11%)
- Wood (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
99.3% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 645- In family households: 596 (180 male householders, 18 female householders)
155 spouses, 211 children (192 natural, 4 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 3 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (27 male householders (27 living alone)), 18 female householders (14 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 85 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 38 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 41 1-person, 4 2-persons,
110 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (6 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |