Lower Towamensing township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Towamensing township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Lower Towamensing township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2755
- Northeast: 264
- Midwest: 76
- South: 46
- West: 7
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
25 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 841
- One, attached: 76
- Two: 55
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 6
- 10 to 19: 6
- Mobile homes: 296
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Lower Towamensing township with a mortgage: 341 (20 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 339
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Apparel (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (11%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Towamensing township:
- German (40.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (14.9%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- Slovak (2.4%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- El Salvador (56%)
- Germany (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,224 (81%)
- Carpooled: 194 (13%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Other means: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 52 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
25 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
90.1% of residents of Lower Towamensing township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 42% don't speak English at all).
6.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,159- In family households: 2,706 (744 male householders, 127 female householders)
739 spouses, 898 children (821 natural, 14 adopted, 63 stepchildren), 60 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 42 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 453 (139 male householders (66 living alone)), 176 female householders (150 living alone)), 138 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 26 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 391 2-persons, 171 3-persons, 207 4-persons, 68 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 216 1-person, 67 2-persons, 17 3-persons, 15 4-persons,
561 married couples with children.
112 single-parent households (40 men, 72 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 4.4% |
| 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: 12
| Here: | 9.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |