Newport township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Newport township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Newport township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4333
- Northeast: 375
- Midwest: 37
- South: 89
- West: 84
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $39,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Newport township, Pennsylvania:
- 829 people in state prisons
- 106 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,260
- One, attached: 281
- Two: 258
- 3 or 4: 235
- 5 to 9: 80
- 20 to 49: 36
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Newport township with a mortgage: 439 (41 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 561
- Public administration (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (14%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Newport township:
- Polish (42.8%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- German (9.8%)
- United States or American (6.7%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Slovak (3.0%)
- Welsh (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (19%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (19%)
- Japan (15%)
- Jamaica (13%)
- Other Caribbean (13%)
- Poland (11%)
- Philippines (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,363 (74%)
- Carpooled: 330 (18%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (1%)
- Walked: 36 (2%)
- Other means: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 70 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (55%)
- Utility gas (19%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Newport township, Pennsylvania:
- 829 people in state prisons
- 106 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
94.3% of residents of Newport township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,061- In family households: 3,282 (790 male householders, 334 female householders)
820 spouses, 1,026 children (987 natural, 11 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 69 brothers or sisters, 56 parents, 17 other relatives, 120 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 779 (254 male householders (213 living alone)), 416 female householders (370 living alone)), 109 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 945 (938 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 507 2-persons, 308 3-persons, 201 4-persons, 85 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 583 1-person, 77 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
532 married couples with children.
219 single-parent households (53 men, 166 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 62
| Here: | 16.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 34.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |