Germany township, Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
Germany township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Germany township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 19% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1147
- Northeast: 84
- Midwest: 47
- South: 931
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 724
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 28
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,000
Housing units in Germany township with a mortgage: 394 (64 second mortgage, 87 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 152
- Construction (21%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (11%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Germany township:
- German (44.4%)
- United States or American (17.0%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- English (7.3%)
- Polish (4.2%)
- Italian (3.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (29%)
- Germany (14%)
- Japan (14%)
- Philippines (14%)
- Cuba (14%)
- Panama (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 953 (82%)
- Carpooled: 136 (12%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 15 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 55 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (36%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Wood (7%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.5% of residents of Germany township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 38% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,261- In family households: 2,115 (540 male householders, 126 female householders)
568 spouses, 755 children (700 natural, 17 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 23 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 146 (61 male householders (49 living alone)), 52 female householders (42 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 250 2-persons, 167 3-persons, 152 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 31 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 91 1-person, 18 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 1 6-persons,
506 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (38 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
Here: | 10.3% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
Here: | 10.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 21.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |