Penn township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (49% naturalized citizens)
Penn township: | 2.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9025
- Northeast: 594
- Midwest: 443
- South: 3895
- West: 154
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
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
325 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,996
- One, attached: 926
- Two: 325
- 3 or 4: 128
- 5 to 9: 66
- 20 to 49: 25
- Mobile homes: 177
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,100
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 3,057 (360 second mortgage, 428 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,127
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Paper (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (47.1%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- Italian (7.0%)
- English (5.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (14%)
- Germany (10%)
- Colombia (10%)
- Vietnam (9%)
- France (7%)
- Russia (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,500 (85%)
- Carpooled: 740 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 44 (1%)
- Walked: 102 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (0%)
- Worked at home: 205 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
325 people in nursing homes
95.8% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 18% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,266- In family households: 12,694 (3,536 male householders, 573 female householders)
3,553 spouses, 4,361 children (3,915 natural, 94 adopted, 352 stepchildren), 105 grandchildren, 104 brothers or sisters, 129 parents, 132 other relatives, 201 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,572 (683 male householders (533 living alone)), 623 female householders (539 living alone)), 266 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 326 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,708 2-persons, 965 3-persons, 953 4-persons, 349 5-persons, 113 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,072 1-person, 211 2-persons, 23 3-persons,
2,853 married couples with children.
695 single-parent households (230 men, 465 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 140
Here: | 7.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
Here: | 3.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 49
Here: | 27.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |