La Plume township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (43% naturalized citizens)
La Plume township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of La Plume township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% 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: 511
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 13
- South: 22
- West: 2
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 131
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 3
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 111
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,600
Housing units in La Plume township with a mortgage: 59 (2 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 46
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Construction (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in La Plume township:
- German (23.5%)
- Irish (17.4%)
- Polish (13.7%)
- Italian (12.6%)
- English (9.0%)
- Welsh (5.8%)
- United States or American (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (43%)
- India (29%)
- Canada (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 264 (84%)
- Carpooled: 34 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 5 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (2%)
- Worked at home: 4 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (44%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Wood (1%)
97.7% of residents of La Plume township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 642- In family households: 541 (141 male householders, 40 female householders)
132 spouses, 207 children (191 natural, 5 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 101 (38 male householders (32 living alone)), 43 female householders (32 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 80 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 26 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 64 1-person, 13 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
102 married couples with children.
25 single-parent households (9 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
Here: | 37.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 7.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 47.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |