Elmhurst township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Elmhurst township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Elmhurst township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 736
- Northeast: 65
- Midwest: 10
- South: 15
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Elmhurst township, Pennsylvania:
- 146 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 249
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Elmhurst township with a mortgage: 128 (15 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 85
- Computer and electronic products (11%)
- Health care (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Construction (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (11%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elmhurst township:
- German (25.5%)
- Irish (18.1%)
- Italian (16.1%)
- Polish (12.1%)
- English (6.9%)
- Welsh (4.0%)
- Lithuanian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Greece (25%)
- Italy (25%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 296 (85%)
- Carpooled: 46 (13%)
- Subway or elevated: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 5 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (71%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Elmhurst township, Pennsylvania:
- 146 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
94.2% of residents of Elmhurst township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
4.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 693- In family households: 614 (165 male householders, 38 female householders)
171 spouses, 207 children (188 natural, 12 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 3 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 79 (36 male householders (28 living alone)), 28 female householders (20 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 159 (154 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 94 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 7 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 48 1-person, 16 2-persons,
119 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (5 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 12.5% |
| 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: 19
| Here: | 50.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |