Packer township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Packer township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Packer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 907
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 16
- South: 16
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 348
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 9
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Packer township with a mortgage: 145 (0 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 102
- Construction (12%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Construction (4%)
- Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Packer township:
- German (30.1%)
- United States or American (13.2%)
- Slovak (10.6%)
- Polish (10.1%)
- Italian (8.5%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
- Irish (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (33%)
- Germany (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 405 (89%)
- Carpooled: 37 (8%)
- Railroad: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 7 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (62%)
- Coal or coke (14%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.9% of residents of Packer township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 955- In family households: 832 (244 male householders, 28 female householders)
246 spouses, 284 children (268 natural, 2 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 2 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 123 (63 male householders (45 living alone)), 31 female householders (25 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 125 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 70 1-person, 21 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
193 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (6 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 12.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 48.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |