Ryan township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (29% naturalized citizens)
Ryan township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Ryan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1333
- Northeast: 61
- Midwest: 8
- South: 21
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 532
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 9
- Mobile homes: 38
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Ryan township with a mortgage: 236 (14 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Construction (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secondary school teachers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ryan township:
- German (23.2%)
- Irish (14.6%)
- Polish (13.1%)
- Lithuanian (9.6%)
- Italian (6.8%)
- English (6.0%)
- Dutch (5.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (43%)
- Germany (29%)
- Korea (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 604 (87%)
- Carpooled: 65 (9%)
- Ferryboat: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Coal or coke (16%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.6% of residents of Ryan township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,450- In family households: 1,286 (365 male householders, 61 female householders)
358 spouses, 444 children (411 natural, 12 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 10 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 164 (68 male householders (54 living alone)), 73 female householders (70 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 168 2-persons, 139 3-persons, 72 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 15 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 124 1-person, 14 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 1 5-persons,
243 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (29 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
Here: | 9.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 7.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 32.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |