Black Creek township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Black Creek township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Black Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1646
- Northeast: 216
- Midwest: 37
- South: 124
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 764
- One, attached: 88
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 22
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,600
Housing units in Black Creek township with a mortgage: 320 (29 second mortgage, 54 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 263
- Construction (15%)
- Food (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Black Creek township:
- German (31.0%)
- Polish (11.9%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- Italian (8.9%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- Dutch (5.8%)
- English (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (24%)
- United Kingdom (22%)
- Other Eastern Europe (12%)
- Dominican Republic (12%)
- Greece (8%)
- Canada (8%)
- Russia (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 789 (84%)
- Carpooled: 120 (13%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 16 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (62%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Coal or coke (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (2%)
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.1% of residents of Black Creek township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,104- In family households: 1,849 (498 male householders, 107 female householders)
491 spouses, 640 children (619 natural, 3 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 14 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 255 (101 male householders (87 living alone)), 121 female householders (105 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 28 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 272 2-persons, 157 3-persons, 116 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 192 1-person, 20 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
375 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (20 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 38.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |