Colebrookdale township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (70% naturalized citizens)
Colebrookdale township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Colebrookdale township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4774
- Northeast: 153
- Midwest: 46
- South: 137
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,570
- One, attached: 284
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 35
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,200
Housing units in Colebrookdale township with a mortgage: 1,038 (65 second mortgage, 252 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 527
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Colebrookdale township:
- German (40.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (9.9%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- United States or American (7.6%)
- Italian (6.9%)
- Dutch (5.0%)
- Polish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (35%)
- Canada (14%)
- Ireland (11%)
- Poland (11%)
- India (11%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Romania (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,637 (89%)
- Carpooled: 226 (8%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 84 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (62%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.9% of residents of Colebrookdale township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,270- In family households: 4,765 (1,341 male householders, 221 female householders)
1,310 spouses, 1,616 children (1,520 natural, 0 adopted, 96 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 49 brothers or sisters, 51 parents, 87 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 505 (183 male householders (141 living alone)), 263 female householders (247 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 650 2-persons, 393 3-persons, 351 4-persons, 120 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 388 1-person, 58 2-persons,
975 married couples with children.
213 single-parent households (78 men, 135 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 78
Here: | 12.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 54
Here: | 16.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 73
Here: | 62.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |