Carbondale township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Carbondale township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Carbondale 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, 80% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 884
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 13
- South: 27
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
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: 319
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 45
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,700
Housing units in Carbondale township with a mortgage: 149 (8 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 128
- Construction (13%)
- Health care (10%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Air transportation (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Carbondale township:
- Italian (26.8%)
- Polish (25.3%)
- Irish (21.6%)
- German (5.6%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- Russian (3.8%)
- English (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Indonesia (43%)
- Italy (29%)
- Poland (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 397 (81%)
- Carpooled: 70 (14%)
- Walked: 13 (3%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 5 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Wood (1%)
95.5% of residents of Carbondale township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,008- In family households: 870 (213 male householders, 65 female householders)
216 spouses, 296 children (272 natural, 7 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 34 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 138 (62 male householders (49 living alone)), 51 female householders (47 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 102 2-persons, 70 3-persons, 66 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 96 1-person, 13 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
171 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (2 men, 30 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 14.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 48.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |