Lackawaxen township, Pike County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (78% naturalized citizens)
Lackawaxen township: | 4.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
62% of Lackawaxen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 22% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1039
- Northeast: 2711
- Midwest: 41
- South: 133
- West: 39
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,410
- One, attached: 122
- Two: 30
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 164
Median worth of mobile homes: $59,600
Housing units in Lackawaxen township with a mortgage: 741 (39 second mortgage, 82 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 513
- Construction (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (22%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lackawaxen township:
- Italian (20.7%)
- Irish (18.9%)
- German (18.8%)
- United States or American (6.2%)
- English (5.0%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- Norwegian (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (39%)
- Other Northern Europe (12%)
- Italy (8%)
- Canada (8%)
- Poland (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,262 (83%)
- Carpooled: 175 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Railroad: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 41 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (39%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
92.7% of residents of Lackawaxen township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 43% speak English not well).
4.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,154- In family households: 3,605 (981 male householders, 226 female householders)
1,016 spouses, 1,173 children (1,078 natural, 21 adopted, 74 stepchildren), 49 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 58 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 549 (248 male householders (221 living alone)), 238 female householders (205 living alone)), 63 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 626 2-persons, 212 3-persons, 217 4-persons, 106 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 426 1-person, 60 2-persons,
723 married couples with children.
199 single-parent households (49 men, 150 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 1.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 57
Here: | 55.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |