Amity township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (82% naturalized citizens)
| Amity township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
50% of Amity township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7204
- Northeast: 605
- Midwest: 248
- South: 449
- West: 105
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,574
- One, attached: 178
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 110
- 10 to 19: 136
- 20 to 49: 71
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 186
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,600
Housing units in Amity township with a mortgage: 1,779 (172 second mortgage, 334 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 499
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Amity township:
- German (30.1%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- Italian (11.5%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- English (7.0%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (25%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (16%)
- Italy (15%)
- Germany (11%)
- Korea (7%)
- Iran (6%)
- Peru (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,991 (86%)
- Carpooled: 435 (9%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 54 (1%)
- Worked at home: 128 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (35%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
95.4% of residents of Amity township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,841- In family households: 7,895 (2,194 male householders, 361 female householders)
2,155 spouses, 2,725 children (2,562 natural, 64 adopted, 99 stepchildren), 99 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 109 parents, 90 other relatives, 139 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 946 (373 male householders (264 living alone)), 364 female householders (319 living alone)), 209 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,018 2-persons, 604 3-persons, 653 4-persons, 213 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 33 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 583 1-person, 120 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
1,992 married couples with children.
293 single-parent households (86 men, 207 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 107
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 64
| Here: | 17.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 112
| Here: | 50.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |