Caernarvon township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (55% naturalized citizens)
Caernarvon township: | 2.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Caernarvon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1884
- Northeast: 134
- Midwest: 81
- South: 135
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $106,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 705
- One, attached: 88
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 28
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 22
- Mobile homes: 38
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Caernarvon township with a mortgage: 409 (10 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 181
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Caernarvon township:
- German (31.2%)
- Irish (10.6%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- English (8.3%)
- Italian (8.2%)
- Polish (4.3%)
- Swiss (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (37%)
- Germany (24%)
- Japan (14%)
- Mexico (10%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Korea (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,012 (85%)
- Carpooled: 95 (8%)
- Walked: 28 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 54 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (3%)
96.2% of residents of Caernarvon township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 64% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,312- In family households: 2,054 (555 male householders, 98 female householders)
587 spouses, 713 children (648 natural, 18 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 20 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 258 (102 male householders (74 living alone)), 118 female householders (112 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 295 2-persons, 148 3-persons, 116 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 186 1-person, 29 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
500 married couples with children.
63 single-parent households (19 men, 44 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 59
Here: | 20.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
Here: | 8.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 20.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |