Kingston township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Kingston township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Kingston township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 83% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6174
- Northeast: 575
- Midwest: 127
- South: 178
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,561
- One, attached: 36
- Two: 91
- 3 or 4: 97
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 16
- Mobile homes: 107
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,300
Housing units in Kingston township with a mortgage: 1,380 (125 second mortgage, 208 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 757
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kingston township:
- Polish (21.1%)
- Irish (13.4%)
- German (12.4%)
- Italian (11.5%)
- English (10.4%)
- Welsh (6.9%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (40%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (16%)
- Philippines (16%)
- Korea (14%)
- Other Eastern Africa (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,305 (90%)
- Carpooled: 228 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 88 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (1%)
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.6% of residents of Kingston township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English well, 58% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,136- In family households: 6,374 (1,671 male householders, 411 female householders)
1,763 spouses, 2,293 children (2,188 natural, 42 adopted, 63 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 66 parents, 49 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 762 (286 male householders (219 living alone)), 377 female householders (349 living alone)), 99 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 906 2-persons, 497 3-persons, 459 4-persons, 161 5-persons, 46 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 568 1-person, 84 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
1,484 married couples with children.
205 single-parent households (49 men, 156 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 178
| Here: | 20.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 95
| Here: | 22.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 139
| Here: | 41.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |