Silver Lake township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (94% naturalized citizens)
Silver Lake township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Silver Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 15% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 433
- Northeast: 1162
- Midwest: 23
- South: 62
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $53,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 939
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 78
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,000
Housing units in Silver Lake township with a mortgage: 196 (15 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 95
- Construction (14%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Lake township:
- Irish (22.6%)
- German (13.4%)
- English (11.7%)
- United States or American (8.8%)
- Italian (7.4%)
- Polish (7.4%)
- European (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (29%)
- Canada (29%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (18%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (12%)
- Philippines (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 696 (83%)
- Carpooled: 52 (6%)
- Walked: 16 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 72 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Wood (19%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.8% of residents of Silver Lake township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,729- In family households: 1,578 (422 male householders, 83 female householders)
455 spouses, 570 children (534 natural, 8 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 11 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 151 (80 male householders (65 living alone)), 42 female householders (35 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 227 2-persons, 100 3-persons, 111 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 100 1-person, 18 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
408 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (26 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 45
Here: | 18.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
Here: | 11.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 16.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |