Main township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Main township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Main 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, 64% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1069
- Northeast: 93
- Midwest: 32
- South: 53
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $56,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 413
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 16
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,400
Housing units in Main township with a mortgage: 193 (21 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Educational services (11%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Construction (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Postsecondary teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Main township:
- German (28.3%)
- United States or American (15.8%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- English (8.9%)
- Polish (7.4%)
- Italian (6.0%)
- Dutch (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Trinidad and Tobago (50%)
- United Kingdom (20%)
- Ireland (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 546 (84%)
- Carpooled: 65 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 32 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (53%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Coal or coke (8%)
- Wood (3%)
8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.1% of residents of Main township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (27% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 55% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,267- In family households: 1,119 (324 male householders, 37 female householders)
327 spouses, 392 children (355 natural, 2 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 6 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 148 (55 male householders (42 living alone)), 67 female householders (58 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 151 2-persons, 92 3-persons, 83 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 100 1-person, 17 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
275 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (19 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 17.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |