Hickory township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Hickory township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Hickory township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2082
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 126
- South: 55
- West: 20
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 729
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 14
- 10 to 19: 11
- 20 to 49: 23
- Mobile homes: 189
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,100
Housing units in Hickory township with a mortgage: 275 (40 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 259
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (29%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hickory township:
- Italian (24.9%)
- German (24.3%)
- Polish (10.9%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- English (7.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.3%)
- Welsh (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (25%)
- United Kingdom (20%)
- Italy (20%)
- Canada (20%)
- Romania (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 993 (93%)
- Carpooled: 48 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 15 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
97.6% of residents of Hickory township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English well, 71% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,354- In family households: 2,075 (536 male householders, 123 female householders)
558 spouses, 745 children (680 natural, 23 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 13 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 279 (107 male householders (87 living alone)), 134 female householders (118 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 300 2-persons, 150 3-persons, 125 4-persons, 58 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 205 1-person, 30 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
419 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (26 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 7.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |