East Hanover township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (60% naturalized citizens)
| East Hanover township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of East Hanover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4275
- Northeast: 345
- Midwest: 137
- South: 352
- West: 160
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
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
8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,425
- One, attached: 56
- Two: 46
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 489
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,200
Housing units in East Hanover township with a mortgage: 795 (69 second mortgage, 180 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 369
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in East Hanover township:
- German (38.5%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- United States or American (7.9%)
- Italian (6.0%)
- English (5.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.4%)
- Polish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (60%)
- Austria (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,623 (89%)
- Carpooled: 148 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 51 (2%)
- Worked at home: 101 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.2% of residents of East Hanover township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,311- In family households: 4,751 (1,199 male householders, 314 female householders)
1,201 spouses, 1,798 children (1,709 natural, 28 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 52 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 31 other relatives, 141 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 560 (201 male householders (143 living alone)), 235 female householders (199 living alone)), 124 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (8 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 638 2-persons, 379 3-persons, 309 4-persons, 131 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 342 1-person, 68 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
1,065 married couples with children.
267 single-parent households (85 men, 182 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |