Cheltenham township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 11 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Cheltenham township: | 10.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
61% of Cheltenham 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, 74% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 25631
- Northeast: 3347
- Midwest: 984
- South: 2098
- West: 575
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $151,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Cheltenham township, Pennsylvania:
- 731 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 536 people in nursing homes
- 71 people in religious group quarters
- 20 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,606
- One, attached: 1,779
- Two: 564
- 3 or 4: 1,180
- 5 to 9: 317
- 10 to 19: 511
- 20 to 49: 345
- 50 or more: 2,576
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,400
Housing units in Cheltenham township with a mortgage: 5,664 (602 second mortgage, 864 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,593
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (19%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Physicians and surgeons (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Lawyers (3%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (3%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cheltenham township:
- Irish (12.1%)
- Russian (8.6%)
- German (8.6%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- United States or American (3.9%)
- Polish (3.2%)
- English (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (25%)
- Germany (7%)
- India (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Jamaica (5%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- Philippines (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,704 (70%)
- Carpooled: 1,704 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 755 (4%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 392 (2%)
- Railroad: 1,112 (6%)
- Taxi: 17 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 29 (0%)
- Walked: 513 (3%)
- Other means: 56 (0%)
- Worked at home: 724 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Cheltenham township, Pennsylvania:
- 731 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 536 people in nursing homes
- 71 people in religious group quarters
- 20 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
86.8% of residents of Cheltenham township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
4.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
5.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other language at home (89% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 35,462- In family households: 30,094 (7,457 male householders, 2,320 female householders)
7,950 spouses, 10,492 children (9,736 natural, 402 adopted, 354 stepchildren), 531 grandchildren, 240 brothers or sisters, 210 parents, 536 other relatives, 358 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,368 (1,613 male householders (1,260 living alone)), 2,981 female householders (2,700 living alone)), 774 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,413 (538 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,158 2-persons, 2,221 3-persons, 2,100 4-persons, 893 5-persons, 313 6-persons, 92 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,960 1-person, 562 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 30 4-persons,
6,221 married couples with children.
1,530 single-parent households (286 men, 1,244 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 692
| Here: | 17.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 346
| Here: | 15.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,004
| Here: | 42.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |