Roaring Brook township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (95% naturalized citizens)
Roaring Brook township: | 3.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
83% of Roaring Brook township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1387
- Northeast: 125
- Midwest: 10
- South: 21
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 593
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 18
- Mobile homes: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Roaring Brook township with a mortgage: 285 (23 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 252
- Construction (13%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Roaring Brook township:
- Italian (23.3%)
- Polish (19.2%)
- Irish (18.3%)
- German (13.2%)
- United States or American (4.2%)
- English (3.7%)
- Welsh (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (20%)
- Other Eastern Europe (12%)
- Germany (8%)
- Italy (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Canada (7%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 702 (86%)
- Carpooled: 106 (13%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (48%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
2 people in religious group quarters
94.3% of residents of Roaring Brook township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
4.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (44% speak English very well, 56% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,618- In family households: 1,490 (434 male householders, 74 female householders)
454 spouses, 476 children (450 natural, 22 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 9 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 128 (36 male householders (36 living alone)), 88 female householders (84 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 243 2-persons, 108 3-persons, 109 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 120 1-person, 4 2-persons,
281 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (7 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
Here: | 13.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 8.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
Here: | 53.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |