Spring Brook township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Spring Brook township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Spring Brook township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2111
- Northeast: 130
- Midwest: 26
- South: 30
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $147,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 809
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 38
- Mobile homes: 92
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,900
Housing units in Spring Brook township with a mortgage: 379 (55 second mortgage, 59 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 267
- Construction (11%)
- Health care (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Brook township:
- Italian (19.8%)
- German (18.3%)
- Irish (14.7%)
- Polish (14.6%)
- Welsh (5.8%)
- English (5.7%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (30%)
- Germany (26%)
- Philippines (19%)
- Ukraine (15%)
- Cuba (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 992 (86%)
- Carpooled: 100 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 30 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
97.6% of residents of Spring Brook township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 2% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,340- In family households: 2,083 (564 male householders, 122 female householders)
530 spouses, 730 children (702 natural, 20 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 36 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 257 (115 male householders (107 living alone)), 123 female householders (111 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 286 2-persons, 164 3-persons, 166 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 218 1-person, 20 2-persons,
450 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (26 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 46
| Here: | 62.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |