East Hempfield township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (58% naturalized citizens)
| East Hempfield township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
62% of East Hempfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15462
- Northeast: 2014
- Midwest: 1064
- South: 1387
- West: 236
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $155,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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
People in group quarters in East Hempfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 111 people in nursing homes
- 91 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 26 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 4 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 3 people in other group homes
- 2 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,792
- One, attached: 587
- Two: 215
- 3 or 4: 218
- 5 to 9: 285
- 10 to 19: 599
- 20 to 49: 402
- 50 or more: 393
- Mobile homes: 260
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in East Hempfield township with a mortgage: 4,023 (259 second mortgage, 779 home equity loan, 21 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,581
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in East Hempfield township:
- German (37.8%)
- United States or American (10.6%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- English (6.2%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- Swiss (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (28%)
- Korea (11%)
- Germany (7%)
- Italy (5%)
- Peru (3%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (3%)
- Honduras (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 10,004 (88%)
- Carpooled: 613 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 49 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Railroad: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 21 (0%)
- Walked: 209 (2%)
- Other means: 31 (0%)
- Worked at home: 444 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Utility gas (29%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in East Hempfield township, Pennsylvania:
- 111 people in nursing homes
- 91 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 26 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 4 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 3 people in other group homes
- 2 people in homes for the mentally ill
93.4% of residents of East Hempfield township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (38% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 21,039- In family households: 18,129 (5,094 male householders, 966 female householders)
5,211 spouses, 6,143 children (5,626 natural, 260 adopted, 257 stepchildren), 149 grandchildren, 98 brothers or sisters, 164 parents, 125 other relatives, 179 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,910 (1,097 male householders (815 living alone)), 1,373 female householders (1,250 living alone)), 440 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 223 (102 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,865 2-persons, 1,280 3-persons, 1,275 4-persons, 459 5-persons, 157 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,065 1-person, 366 2-persons, 35 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
4,173 married couples with children.
686 single-parent households (168 men, 518 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 209
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 96
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 219
| Here: | 31.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |