Fell township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 150 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Fell township: | 149.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
53% of Fell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 19306
- Northeast: 5630
- Midwest: 496
- South: 1501
- West: 355
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
173 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,144
- One, attached: 1,282
- Two: 74
- 3 or 4: 401
- 5 to 9: 1,194
- 10 to 19: 798
- 20 to 49: 194
- 50 or more: 121
- Mobile homes: 180
Median worth of mobile homes: $63,900
Housing units in Fell township with a mortgage: 5,463 (522 second mortgage, 736 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,307
- Public administration (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fell township:
- Italian (18.5%)
- Irish (15.7%)
- German (12.5%)
- United States or American (5.7%)
- English (5.5%)
- Polish (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (23%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- Pakistan (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- Korea (5%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,363 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,432 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 326 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Railroad: 53 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 16 (0%)
- Bicycle: 35 (0%)
- Walked: 310 (2%)
- Other means: 34 (0%)
- Worked at home: 229 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
173 people in other group homes
83.0% of residents of Fell township speak English at home.
5.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
7.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
3.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (49% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (62% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 29,079- In family households: 24,883 (5,514 male householders, 2,135 female householders)
5,982 spouses, 9,486 children (8,870 natural, 202 adopted, 414 stepchildren), 266 grandchildren, 213 brothers or sisters, 418 parents, 343 other relatives, 526 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,196 (1,456 male householders (954 living alone)), 1,663 female householders (1,377 living alone)), 1,077 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,080 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,834 2-persons, 1,733 3-persons, 1,956 4-persons, 752 5-persons, 261 6-persons, 113 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,331 1-person, 568 2-persons, 173 3-persons, 35 4-persons, 6 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
326 married couples with children.
74 single-parent households (22 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 433
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 153
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 339
| Here: | 9.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |