Washington township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2595
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 33
- South: 65
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 871
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 3
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 179
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,500
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 324 (39 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 221
- Construction (26%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Paper (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secondary school teachers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Media and communication equipment workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (57.8%)
- United States or American (13.0%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.1%)
- Italian (3.3%)
- Swiss (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,097 (79%)
- Carpooled: 179 (13%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 100 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (59%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Coal or coke (16%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
92.2% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
5.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,750- In family households: 2,492 (685 male householders, 92 female householders)
703 spouses, 885 children (842 natural, 21 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 16 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 258 (132 male householders (93 living alone)), 80 female householders (80 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 310 2-persons, 195 3-persons, 170 4-persons, 70 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 36 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
595 married couples with children.
71 single-parent households (32 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 24.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |