Smithfield township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Smithfield township: | 5.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
62% of Smithfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2724
- Northeast: 1977
- Midwest: 156
- South: 273
- West: 126
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
People in group quarters in Smithfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 69 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 34 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 34 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,941
- One, attached: 258
- Two: 185
- 3 or 4: 347
- 5 to 9: 132
- 10 to 19: 26
- Mobile homes: 139
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Smithfield township with a mortgage: 941 (75 second mortgage, 185 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 356
- Construction (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Smithfield township:
- German (22.6%)
- Irish (14.8%)
- Italian (12.1%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Polish (5.3%)
- English (4.8%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (19%)
- Dominican Republic (10%)
- Germany (9%)
- Colombia (8%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Russia (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,145 (80%)
- Carpooled: 366 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 30 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (1%)
- Walked: 63 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 69 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Smithfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 69 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 34 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 34 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
90.3% of residents of Smithfield township speak English at home.
5.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,535- In family households: 4,818 (1,196 male householders, 345 female householders)
1,230 spouses, 1,723 children (1,620 natural, 72 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 31 parents, 108 other relatives, 108 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 717 (268 male householders (203 living alone)), 274 female householders (215 living alone)), 175 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 137 (72 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 637 2-persons, 332 3-persons, 341 4-persons, 155 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 418 1-person, 101 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 16 4-persons,
1,089 married couples with children.
230 single-parent households (59 men, 171 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |