West Brunswick township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (68% naturalized citizens)
| West Brunswick township: | 4.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of West Brunswick township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2766
- Northeast: 250
- Midwest: 43
- South: 185
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
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
69 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 902
- One, attached: 238
- Two: 21
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 11
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 181
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,400
Housing units in West Brunswick township with a mortgage: 584 (73 second mortgage, 71 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 320
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Food and beverage stores (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Apparel (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Brunswick township:
- German (41.2%)
- Italian (9.2%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- United States or American (5.2%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- English (4.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (23%)
- India (20%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (17%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Poland (10%)
- Argentina (9%)
- Japan (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,498 (87%)
- Carpooled: 123 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (1%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 55 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (41%)
- Coal or coke (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
69 people in nursing homes
93.4% of residents of West Brunswick township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English not well).
4.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (19% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 58% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,357- In family households: 2,988 (888 male householders, 111 female householders)
881 spouses, 984 children (945 natural, 8 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 60 parents, 26 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 369 (175 male householders (142 living alone)), 153 female householders (140 living alone)), 41 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 69 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 463 2-persons, 243 3-persons, 185 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 30 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 282 1-person, 46 2-persons,
662 married couples with children.
76 single-parent households (20 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 28
| Here: | 8.2% |
| 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: 35
| Here: | 32.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |