Pittston township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Pittston township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
79% of Pittston township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3081
- Northeast: 232
- Midwest: 15
- South: 56
- West: 16
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
49 people in nursing homes
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,075
- One, attached: 94
- Two: 77
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 6
- Mobile homes: 131
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,300
Housing units in Pittston township with a mortgage: 479 (16 second mortgage, 93 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 502
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electricians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pittston township:
- Italian (41.0%)
- Polish (18.5%)
- Irish (12.8%)
- German (8.0%)
- Lithuanian (2.9%)
- Slovak (2.4%)
- Russian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (33%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (28%)
- Germany (22%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,445 (86%)
- Carpooled: 162 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 41 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 15 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Utility gas (13%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
49 people in nursing homes
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.6% of residents of Pittston township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 39% speak English well).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,398- In family households: 3,024 (793 male householders, 194 female householders)
823 spouses, 1,093 children (1,041 natural, 11 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 19 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 374 (129 male householders (110 living alone)), 217 female householders (217 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 52 (48 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 423 2-persons, 260 3-persons, 185 4-persons, 82 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 327 1-person, 11 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
525 married couples with children.
130 single-parent households (37 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 124
| Here: | 34.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 30.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |