Norwegian township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Norwegian township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Norwegian township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 91% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2034
- Northeast: 74
- Midwest: 9
- South: 24
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $18,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 697
- One, attached: 92
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 28
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 9
- 50 or more: 5
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Norwegian township with a mortgage: 385 (51 second mortgage, 62 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 319
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Norwegian township:
- Irish (22.7%)
- German (15.7%)
- Lithuanian (11.7%)
- Italian (11.2%)
- Polish (8.5%)
- Ukrainian (7.5%)
- Slovak (5.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (43%)
- Italy (19%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (19%)
- Philippines (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 897 (87%)
- Carpooled: 102 (10%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (42%)
- Electricity (39%)
- Coal or coke (15%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
97.4% of residents of Norwegian township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,170- In family households: 1,943 (517 male householders, 120 female householders)
512 spouses, 689 children (650 natural, 13 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 29 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 227 (77 male householders (72 living alone)), 137 female householders (127 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 290 2-persons, 144 3-persons, 136 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 199 1-person, 15 2-persons,
387 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (27 men, 51 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 75
| Here: | 28.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
| Here: | 43.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |