District township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (81% naturalized citizens)
District township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of District township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1315
- Northeast: 53
- Midwest: 16
- South: 34
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 470
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 2
- 50 or more: 3
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,800
Housing units in District township with a mortgage: 237 (18 second mortgage, 56 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 78
- Construction (25%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in District township:
- German (42.1%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Pennsylvania German (7.9%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Italian (5.5%)
- English (5.2%)
- Polish (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (19%)
- Canada (19%)
- Other Western Europe (13%)
- Russia (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 654 (85%)
- Carpooled: 68 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 31 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (58%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Wood (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
93.7% of residents of District township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
6.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,449- In family households: 1,323 (355 male householders, 63 female householders)
382 spouses, 460 children (423 natural, 14 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 18 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 126 (70 male householders (55 living alone)), 37 female householders (32 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 153 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 112 4-persons, 45 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 87 1-person, 18 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
323 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (14 men, 26 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
Here: | 12.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 21.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 13.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |