Mount Pleasant township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (73% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pleasant township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Mount Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1275
- Northeast: 57
- Midwest: 47
- South: 27
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 471
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 57
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Mount Pleasant township with a mortgage: 209 (19 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 106
- Construction (10%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pleasant township:
- German (48.4%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Polish (5.4%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.3%)
- Ukrainian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (55%)
- Guatemala (27%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 669 (88%)
- Carpooled: 67 (9%)
- Walked: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 12 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Coal or coke (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.6% of residents of Mount Pleasant township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,459- In family households: 1,313 (396 male householders, 34 female householders)
395 spouses, 444 children (417 natural, 2 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 7 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 146 (51 male householders (37 living alone)), 67 female householders (56 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 168 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 93 1-person, 25 2-persons,
301 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (16 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 22.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |