Silver Spring township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (66% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Spring township: | 2.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Silver Spring township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8213
- Northeast: 701
- Midwest: 525
- South: 632
- West: 169
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $126,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Silver Spring township, Pennsylvania:
- 16 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,141
- One, attached: 421
- Two: 51
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 58
- Mobile homes: 472
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,600
Housing units in Silver Spring township with a mortgage: 2,119 (269 second mortgage, 351 home equity loan, 26 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 976
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Warehousing and storage (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Spring township:
- German (36.1%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- Italian (8.5%)
- English (8.2%)
- United States or American (7.2%)
- Polish (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (26%)
- Belarus (12%)
- Taiwan (11%)
- India (11%)
- Vietnam (9%)
- Jordan (7%)
- Greece (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,801 (87%)
- Carpooled: 482 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 31 (1%)
- Taxi: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 31 (1%)
- Other means: 25 (0%)
- Worked at home: 139 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Utility gas (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Silver Spring township, Pennsylvania:
- 16 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
94.9% of residents of Silver Spring township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,557- In family households: 9,393 (2,646 male householders, 438 female householders)
2,776 spouses, 3,215 children (2,911 natural, 143 adopted, 161 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 65 parents, 79 other relatives, 108 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,164 (411 male householders (290 living alone)), 551 female householders (508 living alone)), 202 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 35 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,395 2-persons, 669 3-persons, 667 4-persons, 228 5-persons, 97 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 798 1-person, 138 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
2,253 married couples with children.
329 single-parent households (109 men, 220 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 157
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 58
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |