Ridley township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Ridley township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Ridley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 26308
- Northeast: 1126
- Midwest: 407
- South: 1056
- West: 231
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: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Ridley township, Pennsylvania:
- 26 people in religious group quarters
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,142
- One, attached: 3,580
- Two: 476
- 3 or 4: 752
- 5 to 9: 210
- 10 to 19: 300
- 20 to 49: 579
- 50 or more: 497
- Mobile homes: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $162,500
Housing units in Ridley township with a mortgage: 5,553 (537 second mortgage, 991 home equity loan, 26 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,228
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ridley township:
- Irish (30.9%)
- Italian (22.1%)
- German (11.1%)
- English (6.5%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- United States or American (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ukraine (15%)
- India (12%)
- Italy (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Germany (4%)
- Other Eastern Africa (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,549 (80%)
- Carpooled: 1,210 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 282 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 22 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 53 (0%)
- Railroad: 592 (4%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 38 (0%)
- Walked: 330 (2%)
- Other means: 98 (1%)
- Worked at home: 190 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Ridley township, Pennsylvania:
- 26 people in religious group quarters
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
93.4% of residents of Ridley township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
4.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 30,736- In family households: 26,325 (6,412 male householders, 1,821 female householders)
6,618 spouses, 9,775 children (9,151 natural, 196 adopted, 428 stepchildren), 565 grandchildren, 240 brothers or sisters, 223 parents, 324 other relatives, 347 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,411 (1,569 male householders (1,326 living alone)), 2,305 female householders (2,067 living alone)), 537 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 55 (11 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,296 2-persons, 1,943 3-persons, 1,765 4-persons, 818 5-persons, 285 6-persons, 126 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,393 1-person, 433 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 24 4-persons,
5,478 married couples with children.
1,414 single-parent households (331 men, 1,083 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 999
| Here: | 28.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 333
| Here: | 19.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 422
| Here: | 30.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |