West Nantmeal township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (47% naturalized citizens)
West Nantmeal township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of West Nantmeal township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1650
- Northeast: 143
- Midwest: 96
- South: 92
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 565
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 106
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,600
Housing units in West Nantmeal township with a mortgage: 290 (21 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 132
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Nantmeal township:
- German (22.0%)
- Irish (20.1%)
- Italian (12.9%)
- English (10.8%)
- United States or American (9.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
- Polish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (32%)
- Italy (21%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- Taiwan (11%)
- Other Western Asia (11%)
- Other South America (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 791 (83%)
- Carpooled: 68 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 27 (3%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 45 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (4%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
2 people in religious group quarters
95.9% of residents of West Nantmeal township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,029- In family households: 1,865 (493 male householders, 67 female householders)
507 spouses, 674 children (645 natural, 8 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 43 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 23 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 164 (71 male householders (61 living alone)), 74 female householders (72 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 220 2-persons, 137 3-persons, 107 4-persons, 58 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 133 1-person, 5 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
485 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (17 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 70
Here: | 26.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
Here: | 17.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
Here: | 48.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |