Eden township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (85% naturalized citizens)
Eden township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Eden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1682
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 28
- South: 71
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 453
- One, attached: 39
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 96
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,000
Housing units in Eden township with a mortgage: 207 (18 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 99
- Construction (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eden township:
- German (44.8%)
- United States or American (15.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (9.7%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- English (6.3%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- European (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (69%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 560 (62%)
- Carpooled: 149 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Taxi: 7 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Other means: 30 (3%)
- Worked at home: 120 (13%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (42%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Coal or coke (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Wood (9%)
- Other fuel (1%)
73.1% of residents of Eden township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
26.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,856- In family households: 1,726 (426 male householders, 52 female householders)
415 spouses, 762 children (710 natural, 12 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 13 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 130 (40 male householders (33 living alone)), 63 female householders (49 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 184 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 92 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 36 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 82 1-person, 19 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
544 married couples with children.
59 single-parent households (27 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
Here: | 26.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 17.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |