Greenfield township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (41% naturalized citizens)
Greenfield township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Greenfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1674
- Northeast: 186
- Midwest: 32
- South: 42
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $200,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 832
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 128
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,000
Housing units in Greenfield township with a mortgage: 325 (40 second mortgage, 97 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 152
- Construction (14%)
- Health care (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Health care (29%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Greenfield township:
- Italian (22.8%)
- Irish (15.5%)
- Polish (13.8%)
- English (9.7%)
- German (9.7%)
- Russian (5.5%)
- United States or American (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (41%)
- Dominican Republic (23%)
- India (18%)
- Germany (9%)
- Poland (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 820 (86%)
- Carpooled: 83 (9%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 29 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
95.8% of residents of Greenfield township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,990- In family households: 1,771 (484 male householders, 90 female householders)
496 spouses, 623 children (583 natural, 15 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 11 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 219 (91 male householders (73 living alone)), 93 female householders (84 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 247 2-persons, 144 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 157 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
388 married couples with children.
53 single-parent households (12 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
Here: | 11.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
Here: | 12.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
Here: | 25.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |