Dover township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Dover township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Dover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15331
- Northeast: 747
- Midwest: 427
- South: 1152
- West: 178
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $98,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Dover township, Pennsylvania:
- 155 people in nursing homes
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,843
- One, attached: 801
- Two: 131
- 3 or 4: 78
- 5 to 9: 156
- 10 to 19: 89
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 1,111
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,600
Housing units in Dover township with a mortgage: 3,465 (413 second mortgage, 570 home equity loan, 33 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,267
- Construction (13%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dover township:
- German (52.2%)
- United States or American (16.0%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- English (5.2%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- Polish (1.7%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (19%)
- Canada (13%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Ethiopia (10%)
- Poland (9%)
- Italy (8%)
- Netherlands (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,498 (89%)
- Carpooled: 758 (8%)
- Walked: 48 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 263 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (47%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Dover township, Pennsylvania:
- 155 people in nursing homes
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.7% of residents of Dover township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 18% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 17,842- In family households: 15,746 (4,437 male householders, 846 female householders)
4,592 spouses, 5,180 children (4,708 natural, 86 adopted, 386 stepchildren), 188 grandchildren, 27 brothers or sisters, 94 parents, 93 other relatives, 289 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,096 (897 male householders (681 living alone)), 845 female householders (744 living alone)), 354 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 231 (120 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,327 2-persons, 1,332 3-persons, 1,073 4-persons, 403 5-persons, 96 6-persons, 52 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,425 1-person, 291 2-persons, 17 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
3,282 married couples with children.
805 single-parent households (288 men, 517 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 163
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 46
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 115
| Here: | 29.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |