Montour township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Montour township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Montour township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1252
- Northeast: 57
- Midwest: 39
- South: 43
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 448
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 2
- 50 or more: 18
- Mobile homes: 109
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,000
Housing units in Montour township with a mortgage: 181 (26 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 153
- Construction (11%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Montour township:
- German (43.8%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.9%)
- Polish (5.2%)
- English (4.3%)
- Italian (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Korea (25%)
- Panama (25%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 577 (85%)
- Carpooled: 66 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 17 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Wood (2%)
98.2% of residents of Montour township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,437- In family households: 1,228 (342 male householders, 83 female householders)
332 spouses, 417 children (386 natural, 12 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 11 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 209 (87 male householders (69 living alone)), 82 female householders (74 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 204 2-persons, 107 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 12 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 143 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
220 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (30 men, 47 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |