Schuylkill township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Schuylkill township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
84% of Schuylkill township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 85% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1049
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 14
- South: 17
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $15,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 272
- One, attached: 264
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 24
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,200
Housing units in Schuylkill township with a mortgage: 176 (11 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 244
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Apparel (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Extraction workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Schuylkill township:
- Irish (17.9%)
- German (17.8%)
- Polish (10.6%)
- Slovak (10.0%)
- Italian (7.2%)
- Austrian (5.2%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (29%)
- Germany (29%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 383 (85%)
- Carpooled: 56 (12%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (63%)
- Coal or coke (30%)
- Electricity (7%)
96.5% of residents of Schuylkill township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (25% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 38% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,123- In family households: 948 (277 male householders, 69 female householders)
277 spouses, 268 children (240 natural, 12 adopted, 16 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 14 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 175 (79 male householders (62 living alone)), 78 female householders (78 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 188 2-persons, 83 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 140 1-person, 14 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
132 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (9 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 34.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 33.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |