Chester township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Chester township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Chester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3666
- Northeast: 177
- Midwest: 69
- South: 553
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 250
- One, attached: 1,303
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 40
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 25
- 20 to 49: 40
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 52
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Chester township with a mortgage: 737 (114 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 12 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 209
- Health care (8%)
- Paper (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Bus drivers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chester township:
- Irish (6.1%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
- German (3.3%)
- Polish (2.8%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- English (1.9%)
- African (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Africa (36%)
- Guyana (20%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (19%)
- Korea (11%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,378 (76%)
- Carpooled: 260 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 95 (5%)
- Railroad: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 54 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
95.9% of residents of Chester township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,604- In family households: 4,059 (504 male householders, 677 female householders)
530 spouses, 1,762 children (1,665 natural, 38 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 180 grandchildren, 45 brothers or sisters, 64 parents, 107 other relatives, 190 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 545 (192 male householders (161 living alone)), 263 female householders (215 living alone)), 90 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 368 2-persons, 327 3-persons, 244 4-persons, 140 5-persons, 87 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 376 1-person, 73 2-persons, 6 4-persons,
591 married couples with children.
716 single-parent households (102 men, 614 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 213
| Here: | 27.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 54
| Here: | 21.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 75
| Here: | 34.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |