West Fallowfield township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
| West Fallowfield township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of West Fallowfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2051
- Northeast: 88
- Midwest: 41
- South: 207
- West: 43
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $141,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 710
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 25
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 92
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in West Fallowfield township with a mortgage: 300 (18 second mortgage, 56 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 173
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Construction (16%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Fallowfield township:
- German (23.5%)
- English (12.8%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.3%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- Swiss (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (46%)
- Canada (20%)
- Other Western Europe (14%)
- Germany (11%)
- Venezuela (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 993 (80%)
- Carpooled: 112 (9%)
- Walked: 21 (2%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 105 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (4%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
89.3% of residents of West Fallowfield township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
8.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (31% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,485- In family households: 2,281 (589 male householders, 86 female householders)
622 spouses, 865 children (845 natural, 13 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 33 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 204 (93 male householders (75 living alone)), 62 female householders (56 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 257 2-persons, 132 3-persons, 150 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 35 6-persons, 36 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 131 1-person, 12 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
599 married couples with children.
94 single-parent households (29 men, 65 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 74
| Here: | 21.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
| Here: | 47.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |