Banks township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
Banks township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
80% of Banks township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 96% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1297
- Northeast: 39
- Midwest: 14
- South: 11
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
26 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 292
- One, attached: 276
- Two: 24
- 3 or 4: 10
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in Banks township with a mortgage: 186 (12 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 226
- Construction (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (4%)
- Health care (30%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Banks township:
- Slovak (19.4%)
- Italian (16.9%)
- Polish (16.4%)
- German (9.5%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- United States or American (3.7%)
- Hungarian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (38%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (38%)
- Germany (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 495 (85%)
- Carpooled: 51 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (69%)
- Coal or coke (20%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
26 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.3% of residents of Banks township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,350- In family households: 1,159 (324 male householders, 72 female householders)
315 spouses, 383 children (348 natural, 11 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 11 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 191 (62 male householders (56 living alone)), 121 female householders (118 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 27 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 194 2-persons, 82 3-persons, 69 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 174 1-person, 9 2-persons,
209 married couples with children.
50 single-parent households (14 men, 36 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
Here: | 23.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
Here: | 19.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 26.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |