Tunkhannock township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Tunkhannock township: | 5.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
54% of Tunkhannock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 29% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 24% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1792
- Northeast: 2422
- Midwest: 125
- South: 175
- West: 92
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
2 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,702
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 5
- 20 to 49: 11
- Mobile homes: 215
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,200
Housing units in Tunkhannock township with a mortgage: 1,023 (114 second mortgage, 142 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 231
- Construction (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tunkhannock township:
- Italian (18.4%)
- German (14.8%)
- Irish (14.2%)
- Polish (6.1%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- English (4.2%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (8%)
- Italy (8%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (8%)
- Other Central America (8%)
- Jamaica (7%)
- Guyana (7%)
- Greece (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,495 (77%)
- Carpooled: 261 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 50 (3%)
- Subway or elevated: 12 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Other means: 30 (2%)
- Worked at home: 52 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (1%)
2 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
89.3% of residents of Tunkhannock township speak English at home.
5.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
5.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,981- In family households: 4,575 (1,061 male householders, 276 female householders)
1,126 spouses, 1,796 children (1,657 natural, 19 adopted, 120 stepchildren), 74 grandchildren, 29 brothers or sisters, 76 parents, 57 other relatives, 80 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 406 (191 male householders (135 living alone)), 136 female householders (122 living alone)), 79 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 473 2-persons, 274 3-persons, 324 4-persons, 161 5-persons, 83 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 257 1-person, 63 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
1,234 married couples with children.
223 single-parent households (88 men, 135 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 37
| Here: | 24.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |