Monroe township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (55% naturalized citizens)
Monroe township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Monroe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1564
- Northeast: 151
- Midwest: 24
- South: 43
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
20 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 519
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 8
- 50 or more: 3
- Mobile homes: 231
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,900
Housing units in Monroe township with a mortgage: 183 (11 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 125
- Construction (16%)
- Paper (10%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Paper (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Monroe township:
- German (17.1%)
- English (12.1%)
- Irish (12.1%)
- Polish (11.0%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Dutch (5.6%)
- Italian (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (20%)
- Other Northern Europe (15%)
- Germany (15%)
- Italy (15%)
- Panama (15%)
- Poland (10%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 683 (83%)
- Carpooled: 117 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 6 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (69%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- No fuel used (1%)
20 people in other nonhousehold living situations
97.7% of residents of Monroe township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (21% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (46% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,816- In family households: 1,571 (422 male householders, 101 female householders)
426 spouses, 531 children (483 natural, 10 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 13 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 245 (100 male householders (84 living alone)), 110 female householders (96 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 207 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 118 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 180 1-person, 26 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
314 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (35 men, 62 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 9.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 6.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 29.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |