Edgmont township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Edgmont township: | 5.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
61% of Edgmont 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, 50% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2927
- Northeast: 285
- Midwest: 202
- South: 274
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $174,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
People in group quarters in Edgmont township, Pennsylvania:
- 241 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 95 people in nursing homes
- 7 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 927
- One, attached: 265
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 39
- 10 to 19: 93
- 20 to 49: 68
- 50 or more: 63
- Mobile homes: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $112,500
Housing units in Edgmont township with a mortgage: 651 (57 second mortgage, 114 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 220
- Construction (18%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Construction (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Edgmont township:
- Irish (23.4%)
- Italian (18.1%)
- German (13.5%)
- English (9.5%)
- United States or American (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- Greek (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (18%)
- Russia (16%)
- Greece (9%)
- India (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Germany (7%)
- Iran (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,363 (84%)
- Carpooled: 142 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 6 (0%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 74 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (31%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Other fuel (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- No fuel used (2%)
People in group quarters in Edgmont township, Pennsylvania:
- 241 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 95 people in nursing homes
- 7 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.1% of residents of Edgmont township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 34% speak English well).
4.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (49% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,573- In family households: 3,093 (882 male householders, 125 female householders)
921 spouses, 1,056 children (989 natural, 49 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 33 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 480 (147 male householders (129 living alone)), 296 female householders (282 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 345 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 475 2-persons, 175 3-persons, 194 4-persons, 101 5-persons, 54 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 411 1-person, 32 2-persons,
764 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (19 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 186
| Here: | 37.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 222
| Here: | 60.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 44
| Here: | 50.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |