Colerain township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (52% naturalized citizens)
Colerain township: | 0.8% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Colerain township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2843
- Northeast: 101
- Midwest: 40
- South: 224
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
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: 810
- One, attached: 71
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 53
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,300
Housing units in Colerain township with a mortgage: 360 (33 second mortgage, 57 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 149
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Construction (19%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Cashiers (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Colerain township:
- German (36.9%)
- United States or American (12.1%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- English (9.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (7.5%)
- Italian (5.2%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (68%)
- Ireland (16%)
- Netherlands (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,003 (66%)
- Carpooled: 138 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 126 (8%)
- Other means: 54 (4%)
- Worked at home: 180 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Coal or coke (19%)
- Wood (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
70.0% of residents of Colerain township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
29.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,261- In family households: 3,125 (753 male householders, 104 female householders)
767 spouses, 1,412 children (1,367 natural, 19 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 23 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 136 (51 male householders (40 living alone)), 65 female householders (59 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 319 2-persons, 168 3-persons, 165 4-persons, 80 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 80 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 99 1-person, 17 2-persons,
1,064 married couples with children.
69 single-parent households (29 men, 40 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 218
Here: | 38.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 36
Here: | 19.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |