Glenburn township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Glenburn township: | 3.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Glenburn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 918
- Northeast: 92
- Midwest: 84
- South: 60
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 418
- One, attached: 18
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 50
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,400
Housing units in Glenburn township with a mortgage: 219 (19 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 116
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Physicians and surgeons (8%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Glenburn township:
- Irish (18.8%)
- Italian (17.7%)
- German (13.9%)
- English (11.2%)
- Polish (8.7%)
- Welsh (6.3%)
- Russian (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (38%)
- Sweden (18%)
- Philippines (15%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Other Northern Europe (5%)
- Korea (5%)
- India (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 501 (89%)
- Carpooled: 39 (7%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 13 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (5%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
95.7% of residents of Glenburn township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,206- In family households: 1,080 (288 male householders, 65 female householders)
305 spouses, 381 children (361 natural, 6 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 14 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 126 (50 male householders (50 living alone)), 72 female householders (69 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 158 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 119 1-person, 3 2-persons,
267 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (5 men, 27 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 18.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 5.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 54.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |