Delaware township, Pike County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (72% naturalized citizens)
| Delaware township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Delaware township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 8% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 624
- Northeast: 5030
- Midwest: 158
- South: 182
- West: 93
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
20 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,384
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 8
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $79,000
Housing units in Delaware township with a mortgage: 1,512 (116 second mortgage, 243 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 365
- Construction (18%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Delaware township:
- Irish (19.7%)
- Italian (18.6%)
- German (16.4%)
- English (6.8%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (15%)
- Hungary (10%)
- Ireland (6%)
- Guyana (6%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (6%)
- Russia (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,138 (81%)
- Carpooled: 363 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 49 (2%)
- Other means: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (40%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (11%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
20 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
93.6% of residents of Delaware township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,299- In family households: 5,703 (1,437 male householders, 319 female householders)
1,545 spouses, 2,136 children (1,946 natural, 70 adopted, 120 stepchildren), 49 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 48 parents, 58 other relatives, 86 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 596 (241 male householders (196 living alone)), 248 female householders (206 living alone)), 107 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 652 2-persons, 408 3-persons, 409 4-persons, 202 5-persons, 59 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 402 1-person, 74 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
1,557 married couples with children.
325 single-parent households (76 men, 249 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 31
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 51
| Here: | 45.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |