Salem township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (78% naturalized citizens)
Salem township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Salem township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3793
- Northeast: 204
- Midwest: 53
- South: 118
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $98,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
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
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,510
- One, attached: 74
- Two: 48
- 3 or 4: 63
- Mobile homes: 229
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,600
Housing units in Salem township with a mortgage: 566 (45 second mortgage, 51 home equity loan, 12 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 542
- Food (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Utilities (10%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Salem township:
- German (28.8%)
- Italian (10.5%)
- Polish (9.8%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (33%)
- Germany (31%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
- Peru (14%)
- Poland (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,754 (83%)
- Carpooled: 214 (10%)
- Walked: 52 (2%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 88 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Wood (2%)
5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.4% of residents of Salem township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,264- In family households: 3,783 (1,094 male householders, 198 female householders)
1,053 spouses, 1,189 children (1,069 natural, 34 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 60 parents, 49 other relatives, 102 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 481 (189 male householders (166 living alone)), 254 female householders (250 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 640 2-persons, 253 3-persons, 272 4-persons, 89 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 416 1-person, 16 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
706 married couples with children.
174 single-parent households (45 men, 129 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
Here: | 6.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 30
Here: | 11.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
Here: | 29.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |