Conestoga township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Conestoga township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Conestoga township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 86% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3215
- Northeast: 130
- Midwest: 92
- South: 203
- West: 62
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,103
- One, attached: 56
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 178
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,000
Housing units in Conestoga township with a mortgage: 584 (23 second mortgage, 140 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 281
- Construction (17%)
- Printing and related support activities (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Conestoga township:
- German (48.6%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- English (8.3%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- Swiss (3.8%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (32%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (24%)
- Netherlands (20%)
- Germany (12%)
- South Africa (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,699 (87%)
- Carpooled: 166 (8%)
- Walked: 28 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 57 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.6% of residents of Conestoga township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (38% speak English well, 62% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,749- In family households: 3,313 (873 male householders, 201 female householders)
873 spouses, 1,210 children (1,171 natural, 18 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 79 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 28 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 436 (198 male householders (146 living alone)), 117 female householders (91 living alone)), 121 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 447 2-persons, 235 3-persons, 263 4-persons, 87 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 237 1-person, 61 2-persons, 12 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
764 married couples with children.
166 single-parent households (63 men, 103 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 19.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |