Centre township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (89% naturalized citizens)
| Centre township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Centre township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 87% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3160
- Northeast: 141
- Midwest: 39
- South: 146
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,114
- One, attached: 44
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 34
- Mobile homes: 185
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,600
Housing units in Centre township with a mortgage: 659 (57 second mortgage, 162 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 190
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Construction (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Centre township:
- German (45.1%)
- United States or American (13.6%)
- Italian (7.6%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.2%)
- English (4.8%)
- Polish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (48%)
- Romania (18%)
- Canada (15%)
- Netherlands (11%)
- Mexico (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,727 (91%)
- Carpooled: 76 (4%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 68 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (63%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Utility gas (8%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Wood (2%)
91.5% of residents of Centre township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 14% don't speak English at all).
6.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,598- In family households: 3,216 (919 male householders, 117 female householders)
852 spouses, 1,166 children (1,033 natural, 22 adopted, 111 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 40 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 382 (128 male householders (90 living alone)), 157 female householders (119 living alone)), 97 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 433 2-persons, 249 3-persons, 235 4-persons, 84 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 209 1-person, 68 2-persons, 8 4-persons,
729 married couples with children.
109 single-parent households (46 men, 63 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 78
| Here: | 18.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 28
| Here: | 20.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |