Sugarloaf township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (65% naturalized citizens)
Sugarloaf township: | 4.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Sugarloaf township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2852
- Northeast: 410
- Midwest: 65
- South: 156
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Sugarloaf township, Pennsylvania:
- 445 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 19 people in religious group quarters
- 13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,178
- One, attached: 39
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 62
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,700
Housing units in Sugarloaf township with a mortgage: 575 (43 second mortgage, 114 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 345
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sugarloaf township:
- German (20.6%)
- Italian (17.3%)
- Polish (14.7%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Slovak (7.0%)
- United States or American (3.2%)
- English (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (25%)
- Korea (13%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Pakistan (10%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- Yugoslavia (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,408 (80%)
- Carpooled: 136 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 100 (6%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 101 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (44%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Sugarloaf township, Pennsylvania:
- 445 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 19 people in religious group quarters
- 13 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
93.8% of residents of Sugarloaf township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
4.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,175- In family households: 2,844 (836 male householders, 100 female householders)
821 spouses, 938 children (863 natural, 36 adopted, 39 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 37 parents, 26 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 331 (128 male householders (100 living alone)), 156 female householders (142 living alone)), 47 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 477 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 423 2-persons, 237 3-persons, 178 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 242 1-person, 37 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
601 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (25 men, 55 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 107
Here: | 31.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 60
Here: | 29.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 63
Here: | 10.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |