Ransom township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (52% naturalized citizens)
Ransom township: | 1.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Ransom township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1251
- Northeast: 99
- Midwest: 22
- South: 27
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $107,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 429
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 81
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,300
Housing units in Ransom township with a mortgage: 196 (24 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 150
- Construction (19%)
- Paper (7%)
- Health care (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Paper (3%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ransom township:
- German (15.8%)
- Irish (15.8%)
- Polish (14.5%)
- Italian (13.0%)
- Welsh (8.5%)
- English (6.2%)
- Russian (6.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- El Salvador (39%)
- Vietnam (30%)
- Canada (13%)
- Italy (9%)
- Honduras (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 618 (84%)
- Carpooled: 85 (12%)
- Walked: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 30 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Utility gas (8%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.4% of residents of Ransom township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (70% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,430- In family households: 1,237 (335 male householders, 81 female householders)
327 spouses, 417 children (399 natural, 12 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 24 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 193 (78 male householders (56 living alone)), 80 female householders (62 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 186 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 102 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 118 1-person, 35 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
262 married couples with children.
51 single-parent households (23 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
Here: | 11.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
Here: | 61.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |