Elk township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (30% naturalized citizens)
Elk township: | 4.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Elk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 23% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 755
- Northeast: 124
- Midwest: 44
- South: 502
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 451
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 56
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $76,700
Housing units in Elk township with a mortgage: 271 (24 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 76
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk township:
- German (18.2%)
- Irish (16.7%)
- English (15.3%)
- United States or American (9.7%)
- Italian (9.3%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (48%)
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Ireland (5%)
- Guyana (5%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (3%)
- Ghana (3%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 644 (85%)
- Carpooled: 68 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 3 (0%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
93.7% of residents of Elk township speak English at home.
5.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,519- In family households: 1,390 (345 male householders, 77 female householders)
362 spouses, 513 children (485 natural, 0 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 19 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 129 (61 male householders (54 living alone)), 50 female householders (38 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 155 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 110 4-persons, 50 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 92 1-person, 19 2-persons,
354 married couples with children.
49 single-parent households (12 men, 37 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 53
Here: | 24.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
Here: | 16.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 37.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |