Madison township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Madison township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Madison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2182
- Northeast: 256
- Midwest: 29
- South: 66
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $116,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 685
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 276
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Madison township with a mortgage: 360 (21 second mortgage, 52 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 115
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Madison township:
- German (22.5%)
- Italian (20.6%)
- Irish (14.8%)
- Polish (10.9%)
- United States or American (9.7%)
- English (5.1%)
- Welsh (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (52%)
- Ireland (29%)
- Other Northern Europe (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,092 (85%)
- Carpooled: 138 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Worked at home: 19 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.6% of residents of Madison township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,569- In family households: 2,354 (616 male householders, 115 female householders)
581 spouses, 919 children (830 natural, 18 adopted, 71 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 16 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 215 (93 male householders (80 living alone)), 96 female householders (76 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 276 2-persons, 177 3-persons, 175 4-persons, 73 5-persons, 30 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 156 1-person, 33 2-persons,
536 married couples with children.
127 single-parent households (44 men, 83 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 7.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 25.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |