Orange township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Orange township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Orange township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 950
- Northeast: 120
- Midwest: 41
- South: 33
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $154,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 449
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 71
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,100
Housing units in Orange township with a mortgage: 190 (16 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 65
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Utilities (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Registered nurses (12%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Orange township:
- German (36.7%)
- English (14.5%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Italian (7.0%)
- Polish (6.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 555 (87%)
- Carpooled: 58 (9%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 24 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Coal or coke (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (1%)
97.6% of residents of Orange township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 40% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (29% speak English very well, 52% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,164- In family households: 1,054 (313 male householders, 30 female householders)
319 spouses, 360 children (323 natural, 10 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 110 (42 male householders (31 living alone)), 54 female householders (50 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 146 2-persons, 77 3-persons, 80 4-persons, 30 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 81 1-person, 15 2-persons,
263 married couples with children.
19 single-parent households (10 men, 9 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |