Alsace township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (73% naturalized citizens)
| Alsace township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Alsace township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3329
- Northeast: 110
- Midwest: 25
- South: 90
- West: 44
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,354
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 9
- Mobile homes: 100
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,500
Housing units in Alsace township with a mortgage: 612 (41 second mortgage, 136 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 439
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Alsace township:
- German (44.0%)
- Polish (8.4%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Dutch (5.7%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (27%)
- Poland (16%)
- Nigeria (16%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (11%)
- Ukraine (10%)
- Other Northern Europe (5%)
- Korea (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,736 (90%)
- Carpooled: 131 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 43 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (68%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
94.7% of residents of Alsace township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,689- In family households: 3,205 (916 male householders, 131 female householders)
887 spouses, 1,043 children (980 natural, 8 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 43 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 40 parents, 58 other relatives, 81 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 484 (203 male householders (149 living alone)), 184 female householders (144 living alone)), 97 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 482 2-persons, 231 3-persons, 216 4-persons, 79 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 293 1-person, 83 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
611 married couples with children.
100 single-parent households (54 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 23.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |