Hazle township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
Hazle township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
76% of Hazle township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8105
- Northeast: 346
- Midwest: 168
- South: 203
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
240 people in nursing homes
20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,240
- One, attached: 1,044
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 95
- 5 to 9: 207
- 10 to 19: 102
- 20 to 49: 13
- 50 or more: 39
- Mobile homes: 231
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,600
Housing units in Hazle township with a mortgage: 1,342 (93 second mortgage, 288 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,368
- Construction (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hazle township:
- Italian (24.1%)
- Polish (19.8%)
- German (11.1%)
- Slovak (10.1%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (29%)
- Germany (26%)
- Ukraine (14%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Canada (7%)
- Italy (5%)
- Romania (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,256 (84%)
- Carpooled: 474 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 38 (1%)
- Walked: 26 (1%)
- Other means: 15 (0%)
- Worked at home: 62 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Coal or coke (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
240 people in nursing homes
20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.7% of residents of Hazle township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,731- In family households: 7,356 (2,088 male householders, 459 female householders)
2,006 spouses, 2,331 children (2,153 natural, 56 adopted, 122 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 119 brothers or sisters, 83 parents, 83 other relatives, 124 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,375 (440 male householders (363 living alone)), 789 female householders (735 living alone)), 146 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 260 (228 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,244 2-persons, 655 3-persons, 396 4-persons, 178 5-persons, 65 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,098 1-person, 107 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
1,213 married couples with children.
432 single-parent households (113 men, 319 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 230
Here: | 27.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 103
Here: | 26.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 77
Here: | 27.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |