East Coventry township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (56% naturalized citizens)
| East Coventry township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of East Coventry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3690
- Northeast: 305
- Midwest: 155
- South: 252
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $191,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
217 people in nursing homes
2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,427
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 14
- 10 to 19: 45
- Mobile homes: 142
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,200
Housing units in East Coventry township with a mortgage: 826 (29 second mortgage, 238 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 399
- Educational services (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (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%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in East Coventry township:
- German (27.5%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- English (12.5%)
- Italian (8.6%)
- United States or American (6.1%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (23%)
- United Kingdom (22%)
- Hungary (19%)
- Poland (8%)
- Argentina (8%)
- Austria (7%)
- Colombia (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,932 (85%)
- Carpooled: 154 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Railroad: 14 (1%)
- Walked: 25 (1%)
- Other means: 10 (0%)
- Worked at home: 137 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (75%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
217 people in nursing homes
2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.3% of residents of East Coventry township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,343- In family households: 3,835 (1,050 male householders, 205 female householders)
1,080 spouses, 1,337 children (1,263 natural, 18 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 21 other relatives, 76 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 508 (160 male householders (125 living alone)), 247 female householders (214 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 223 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 525 2-persons, 293 3-persons, 269 4-persons, 121 5-persons, 41 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 339 1-person, 54 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
877 married couples with children.
125 single-parent households (34 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 28
| Here: | 10.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 40
| Here: | 60.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |