Hamilton township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (87% naturalized citizens)
Hamilton township: | 3.1% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Hamilton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 37% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4752
- Northeast: 2403
- Midwest: 207
- South: 437
- West: 132
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Hamilton township, Pennsylvania:
- 241 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 195 people in nursing homes
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,619
- One, attached: 54
- Two: 145
- 3 or 4: 65
- 5 to 9: 29
- 10 to 19: 5
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 371
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,000
Housing units in Hamilton township with a mortgage: 1,378 (166 second mortgage, 191 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 484
- Construction (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hamilton township:
- German (25.7%)
- Italian (17.3%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (8.4%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Polish (5.0%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (16%)
- Germany (14%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (13%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (8%)
- Canada (7%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,973 (80%)
- Carpooled: 500 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 56 (2%)
- Walked: 29 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 158 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (5%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Hamilton township, Pennsylvania:
- 241 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 195 people in nursing homes
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
93.3% of residents of Hamilton township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (27% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,788- In family households: 6,856 (1,908 male householders, 314 female householders)
2,021 spouses, 2,262 children (2,145 natural, 20 adopted, 97 stepchildren), 98 grandchildren, 56 brothers or sisters, 86 parents, 54 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 932 (333 male householders (233 living alone)), 402 female householders (336 living alone)), 197 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 447 (421 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 880 2-persons, 538 3-persons, 485 4-persons, 210 5-persons, 60 6-persons, 49 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 569 1-person, 155 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
1,560 married couples with children.
275 single-parent households (78 men, 197 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 120
Here: | 12.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 78
Here: | 16.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
Here: | 13.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |