Cass township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Cass township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Cass township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2094
- Northeast: 125
- Midwest: 6
- South: 38
- West: 83
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $24,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
543 people in federal prisons and detention centers
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 522
- One, attached: 224
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 13
- Mobile homes: 67
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,300
Housing units in Cass township with a mortgage: 225 (24 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 383
- Construction (18%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (32%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cass township:
- Irish (25.0%)
- Ukrainian (16.3%)
- Polish (13.5%)
- German (11.5%)
- Dutch (5.6%)
- Italian (5.1%)
- Lithuanian (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (70%)
- Ukraine (30%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 636 (85%)
- Carpooled: 91 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 9 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (66%)
- Coal or coke (23%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
543 people in federal prisons and detention centers
92.8% of residents of Cass township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (18% speak English very well, 71% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,848- In family households: 1,544 (414 male householders, 114 female householders)
392 spouses, 518 children (491 natural, 14 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 16 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 304 (125 male householders (95 living alone)), 130 female householders (122 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 512 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 232 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 112 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 217 1-person, 31 2-persons, 5 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
269 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (15 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 15.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 24.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |