Perkiomen township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (60% naturalized citizens)
Perkiomen township: | 4.3% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
51% of Perkiomen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5571
- Northeast: 622
- Midwest: 178
- South: 295
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $150,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
6 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,665
- One, attached: 739
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 68
- 5 to 9: 20
- 10 to 19: 9
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $101,600
Housing units in Perkiomen township with a mortgage: 1,868 (144 second mortgage, 294 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 249
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perkiomen township:
- Italian (21.3%)
- German (21.3%)
- Irish (18.4%)
- Polish (6.1%)
- English (4.9%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- Welsh (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (19%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Germany (13%)
- Canada (11%)
- Russia (9%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- Thailand (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,288 (88%)
- Carpooled: 288 (8%)
- Subway or elevated: 8 (0%)
- Railroad: 33 (1%)
- Walked: 15 (0%)
- Other means: 25 (1%)
- Worked at home: 100 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
6 people in homes for the mentally ill
92.7% of residents of Perkiomen township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,087- In family households: 6,476 (1,639 male householders, 335 female householders)
1,814 spouses, 2,460 children (2,251 natural, 14 adopted, 195 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 33 parents, 70 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 611 (239 male householders (178 living alone)), 259 female householders (221 living alone)), 113 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 637 2-persons, 484 3-persons, 546 4-persons, 223 5-persons, 77 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 399 1-person, 90 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
1,884 married couples with children.
288 single-parent households (56 men, 232 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 126
Here: | 14.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 63
Here: | 17.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 63
Here: | 33.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |