Penn township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Penn township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1725
- Northeast: 110
- Midwest: 26
- South: 44
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $145,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
8 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 683
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 352 (25 second mortgage, 105 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 156
- Construction (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (51.5%)
- Italian (7.5%)
- United States or American (6.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (6.1%)
- Irish (5.1%)
- English (4.9%)
- Polish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (21%)
- Italy (17%)
- Canada (17%)
- Sweden (14%)
- Korea (10%)
- Germany (7%)
- Pakistan (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 941 (86%)
- Carpooled: 55 (5%)
- Walked: 46 (4%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 47 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (61%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
8 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.2% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 55% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,950- In family households: 1,777 (515 male householders, 56 female householders)
502 spouses, 631 children (591 natural, 11 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 11 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 173 (66 male householders (52 living alone)), 73 female householders (67 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 232 2-persons, 138 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 119 1-person, 14 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
429 married couples with children.
42 single-parent households (24 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 13.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 43.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |