Great Bend township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
Great Bend township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Great Bend township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 879
- Northeast: 870
- Midwest: 45
- South: 52
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 534
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 58
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 223
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Great Bend township with a mortgage: 185 (12 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 144
- Construction (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Great Bend township:
- German (17.2%)
- United States or American (16.0%)
- English (15.3%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- Polish (9.4%)
- Italian (7.4%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (25%)
- Canada (25%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Philippines (17%)
- Haiti (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 677 (78%)
- Carpooled: 128 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 19 (2%)
- Worked at home: 38 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (53%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (8%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.1% of residents of Great Bend township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,894- In family households: 1,637 (423 male householders, 126 female householders)
439 spouses, 544 children (515 natural, 6 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 14 other relatives, 48 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 257 (102 male householders (87 living alone)), 123 female householders (110 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 260 2-persons, 138 3-persons, 94 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 197 1-person, 27 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
339 married couples with children.
116 single-parent households (25 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 2.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 5.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 44.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |