Plymouth township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Plymouth township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Plymouth township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1862
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 18
- South: 48
- West: 67
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 697
- One, attached: 56
- Two: 51
- 3 or 4: 53
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,600
Housing units in Plymouth township with a mortgage: 290 (37 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 294
- Construction (15%)
- Health care (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plymouth township:
- Polish (34.3%)
- Irish (14.5%)
- German (10.8%)
- English (7.6%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Welsh (5.6%)
- Dutch (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (39%)
- Colombia (39%)
- Germany (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 814 (83%)
- Carpooled: 132 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (1%)
- Taxi: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 11 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Utility gas (14%)
- Coal or coke (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
96.5% of residents of Plymouth township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,097- In family households: 1,835 (464 male householders, 130 female householders)
441 spouses, 626 children (599 natural, 20 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 40 parents, 24 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 262 (115 male householders (100 living alone)), 117 female householders (108 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 240 2-persons, 150 3-persons, 135 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 208 1-person, 21 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
349 married couples with children.
63 single-parent households (21 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
Here: | 13.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
Here: | 13.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
Here: | 42.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |